Thread: tsearch2 install on Fedora Core 5 problems
Hello - I can't get tsearch2 running in a long-functioning instance of PostgreSQL 8.1.9 on Fedora Core 5, and could use some help.
When I place the tsearch2 source files under the contrib folder in a standard Fedora Core 5 postgres install (/usr/share/pgsql/contrib) and run make, I get the following
# make
Makefile:33: ../../src/Makefile.global: No such file or directory
Makefile:34: /contrib/contrib-global.mk: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/contrib/contrib-global.mk'. Stop.
I changed the top_builddir location in Makefile from ../.. to the standard Fedora location for the Makefile.global file (usr/lib/pgsql/pgxs), then run make again:
# make
Makefile:33: /usr/lib/pgsql/pgxs/contrib/contrib-global.mk: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/pgsql/pgxs/contrib/contrib-global.mk'. Stop.
I searched for 'contrib-global.mk' and it's nowhere on the system. I'm stumped, and have spent half a day trying various things. I’d like to avoid doing a fresh PostgreSQL install from source, with all the migration issues that implies.
Come to find out, postgresql is installed in Fedora according to the elaborate directory structure below, which varies from locations described in PostgreSQL documentation, as described in:
http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000048/1338/PostgreSQL-RPM-Installation-PGDG.pdf
any ideas welcome..
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Fedora PostgreSQL locations:
Executables
/usr/bin
Libraries
/usr/lib
Documentation
/usr/share/doc/postgresqlx.y.z /usr/share/doc/postgresqlx.y.z/contrib
Contrib
/usr/share/pgsql/contrib
Data
/var/lib/pgsql/data
Backup area
/var/lib/pgsql/backup
Templates
/usr/share/pgsql
Procedural Languages
/usr/lib/pgsql
Development Headers
/usr/include/pgsql
Other shared data
/usr/share/pgsql
Regression tests
/usr/lib/pgsql/test/regress (in the -test package)
Executables /usr/bin
Documentation SGML
/usr/share/doc/postgresqldocsx.y.z
"Satch Jones" <satchinsb@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello - I can't get tsearch2 running in a long-functioning instance of
> PostgreSQL 8.1.9 on Fedora Core 5, and could use some help.
Rather than trying to compile it yourself, why don't you just install
the postgresql-contrib RPM that goes with the postgresql version you're
using?
> When I place the tsearch2 source files under the contrib folder in a
> standard Fedora Core 5 postgres install (/usr/share/pgsql/contrib) and run
> make, I get the following
That's not going to work --- they expect to be in a configured source
tree.
[ thinks... ] Actually, it looks like this would work in 8.1:
make USE_PGXS=1 all install
but I still wonder why you'd want to compile from source when you're
using an RPM distribution.
regards, tom lane