Re: How to Build Postgres in a Portable / Relocatable fashion? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From AJ ONeal
Subject Re: How to Build Postgres in a Portable / Relocatable fashion?
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In response to Re: How to Build Postgres in a Portable / Relocatable fashion?  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
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> > Back in the good old days there was official 1st-party support for Linux:
> This
> was/is a third party site.

Oh. I thought that EDB was *the* Postgres company like MySQL AB was *the* MySQL company. My mistake.

> and `apt`​ is always half-a-decade out-of-date

I misspoke. I meant the OS repos more than apt itself.

> As to Apt build scripts:

I was just using apt as an example. I don't actually want to deal with apt or .debs.

What I want to create (and provide) is a portable tarball that has most of all what it needs in the tarball and will
lookfor relevant libraries relative to itself. Something that Just Works™ *almost* anywhere (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat,
Suse...maybe even Alpine). 

Any idea how to do that?



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