Thread: more 8.3.0 upgrade question

Hi Everybody,

One more 8.3.0 upgrade question.

Assume I ran configure as below:
  ./configure --prefix /usr/local/pgsql-8.3.0

And a couple of steps later when I run
"gmake install" will it generate a directory
/usr/local/pgsql-8.3.0 on its own?  Or must I
do something like:
  gmake install --build-new-dir pgsql-8.3.0

I would assume former, but I want to be sure.
Thank you in advance.

Regards,

Tena Sakai
tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu

"Tena Sakai" <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu> writes:
> And a couple of steps later when I run
> "gmake install" will it generate a directory
> /usr/local/pgsql-8.3.0 on its own?  Or must I
> do something like:
>   gmake install --build-new-dir pgsql-8.3.0

There is no "--build-new-dir" switch.  It will make the directory if it
can, ie, if you run it as a user with sufficient permissions on the
parent directory.

            regards, tom lane

Many thanks, Tom!

Tena Sakai
tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Wed 2/13/2008 7:32 PM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] more 8.3.0 upgrade question

"Tena Sakai" <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu> writes:
> And a couple of steps later when I run
> "gmake install" will it generate a directory
> /usr/local/pgsql-8.3.0 on its own?  Or must I
> do something like:
>   gmake install --build-new-dir pgsql-8.3.0

There is no "--build-new-dir" switch.  It will make the directory if it
can, ie, if you run it as a user with sufficient permissions on the
parent directory.

                        regards, tom lane