Re: BUG #7857: postgresql91-libs fails to create ld.so.conf.d symlink

Hi,

Thanks again for the report. I committed changes. Packages will appear
in less than 4 hours.

Regards, Devrim

On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 20:22 +0000, chris(dot)meisinger(at)centro(dot)net wrote:
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
> Bug reference: 7857
> Logged by: Chris Meisinger
> Email address: chris(dot)meisinger(at)centro(dot)net
> PostgreSQL version: 9.1.8
> Operating system: CentOS 6.3
> Description:
>
> 1. Provision a fresh machine (CentOS 6)
> 2. Perform a yum update of the core OS.
> 3. Install PGDG Rpm via 'curl -O
> http://yum.postgresql.org/9.1/redhat/rhel-6-i386/pgdg-centos91-9.1-4.noarch.rpm'
> following the directions
> 4. 'yum -y install postgresql91 postgresql91-libs postgresql91-devel'
> 5. Note that running 'psql' via CLI generates the following error 'psql:
> error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.5: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory'
> 6. Note that the appropriate symlinks are not being created in
> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ as in the past for inclusion of /usr/pgsql-9.1/ into the
> default search path for libraries.
>
> Older Cent 5 installations have the symlinking as follows...
>
> in /etc/alternatives....
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Jan 8 15:29 pgsql-ld-conf ->
> /usr/pgsql-9.1/share/postgresql-9.1-libs.conf
> with /etc/ld.so.conf.d/postgresql-pgdg-libs.conf being a symlink to
> /etc/alternatives/pgsql-ld-conf
>
> Creating the symlink manually and running 'ldconfig' will correct the
> issue.
>
> Only affects new/fresh installations.
>
>
>

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