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

On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 09:17 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 16/08/2011 alle 09.09 +0200, Guillaume Lelarge ha
> scritto:
> [...]
> > > How do I recognize that directory? I think it should
> > > be /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4 but this does not work.
> > >
> >
> > It is. If it does not work, what error message do you have?
>
> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgadmin3-1.14
> --with-pgsql=/usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> [...]
> checking for memmove... yes
> checking for memset... yes
> checking for strchr... yes
> configure: error: Could not find your PostgreSQL installation in /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin
>

Yeah, I was wrong, it should be /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4,
not /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin.

> [...]
> > > $ 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
> > >
> >
> > No. Those are wrappers, not the real command. For example:
> >
> > guillaume(at)somewhere:~$ ll /usr/bin/psql
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 jan 2 2011 /usr/bin/psql
> > -> ../share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper
>
> some of them are linl to pg_wrapper, some aren't. For instance pg_config
> isn't:
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/pg_*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1123 29 mag 19.18 /usr/bin/pg_config
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26008 4 mag 03.00 /usr/bin/pg_config.libpq-dev
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22799 8 ago 13.27 /usr/bin/pg_createcluster
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15488 24 ott 2010 /usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4013 5 ago 2010 /usr/bin/pg_dropcluster
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 8 ago 15.35 /usr/bin/pg_dump -> ../share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 8 ago 15.35 /usr/bin/pg_dumpall -> ../share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1858 5 ago 2010 /usr/bin/pg_lsclusters
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 8 ago 15.35 /usr/bin/pg_restore -> ../share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23356 4 ago 18.02 /usr/bin/pg_upgradecluster
>

Really strange that pg_config is not a wrapper there.

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Guillaume
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