Re: compiling on debian does not find a valid PostgreSQL 8.4+ installati

Il giorno mar, 16/08/2011 alle 09.00 +0300, Devrim GÜNDÜZ ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 07:31 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> > configure: error: you must specify a valid PostgreSQL 8.4+
> > installation with --with-pgsql=DIR
> >
> > I really do not understand what the problem is.
>
> Message says it all: You need to add
> -with-pgsql=/path/to/postgresql/installation . I don't remember the path
> though.

How do I recognize that directory? I think it should
be /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4 but this does not work.

This is the content of /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4 (and 9.0 directory
contains almost the same commands and libraries for postgresql 9.0):

/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/dict_snowball.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_win.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_iso8859.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/ascii_and_mic.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_euc_kr.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_ascii.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_gbk.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_euc_jp.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_uhc.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_euc_cn.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_sjis.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_gb18030.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/tsearch2.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_euc_tw.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_cyrillic.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/plpgsql.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/latin_and_mic.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_johab.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/euc_cn_and_mic.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/latin2_and_win1250.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/euc_jp_and_sjis.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_iso8859_1.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/euc_kr_and_mic.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/euc_jis_2004_and_shift_jis_2004.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/cyrillic_and_mic.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_big5.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/euc_tw_and_big5.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_euc_jis_2004.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/utf8_and_shift_jis_2004.so
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/postgres
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/pg_controldata
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/initdb
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/pg_resetxlog
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/pg_ctl

Please note that pg_config and other common commands are elsewhere:

$ ls -1 /usr/bin/pg_*
/usr/bin/pg_config
/usr/bin/pg_config.libpq-dev
/usr/bin/pg_createcluster
/usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster
/usr/bin/pg_dropcluster
/usr/bin/pg_dump
/usr/bin/pg_dumpall
/usr/bin/pg_lsclusters
/usr/bin/pg_restore
/usr/bin/pg_upgradecluster

Thanks,
Giuseppe