Thread: initdb errors, postgresql-8.0-beta

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Your name        : Murthy
Your email address    : smk_va@yahoo.com


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  PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-8.0):
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  Compiler used (example:  gcc 2.95.2)        : gcc 3.3.3


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I was able to successfully compile
postogresql-8.0-beta (make check reporteed "Passed all
96 tests").  However, it appears that postresql was
compiled with the wrong value of --pkglibdir: rather
than libdir = $PREFIX/lib it was compiled with libdir
= $PREFIX/bin/lib, but make install put "lib/" in
$PREFIX/lib.  This might have been as issue with the
"share/" dir as well as I have to give the -L option
to initdb and ln -s ../lib lib in $PREFIX bin, before
initdb returned success.

HTH,
   Murthy



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S Murthy Kambhampaty <smk_va@yahoo.com> writes:
> I was able to successfully compile
> postogresql-8.0-beta (make check reporteed "Passed all
> 96 tests").  However, it appears that postresql was
> compiled with the wrong value of --pkglibdir: rather
> than libdir = $PREFIX/lib it was compiled with libdir
> = $PREFIX/bin/lib, but make install put "lib/" in
> $PREFIX/lib.

Did you invoke any of the build steps with a relative path (eg,
"../configure")?  There are some known problems in beta1 with
reducing relative paths to absolute.  I think this probably
explains your issue, though I did not see that specific misbehavior
while investigating the bug.  Should be fixed in beta2.

            regards, tom lane

--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Did you invoke any of the build steps with a
> relative path (eg,
> "../configure")?
Yep.

> There are some known problems in
> beta1 with
> reducing relative paths to absolute.  I think this
> probably
> explains your issue, though I did not see that
> specific misbehavior
> while investigating the bug.  Should be fixed in
> beta2.
Thanks, and sorry for the belated response.

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