Re: installing uuid generators

Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> As Tom suspected the SUSE build doesn't name ossp stuff, to wit:

> CONFIGURE = '--prefix=/usr' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--bindir=/usr/bin'
> '--includedir=/usr/include/pgsql' '--datadir=/usr/share/postgresql'
> '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--docdir=/usr/share/doc/packages'
> '--disable-rpath' '--enable-nls' '--enable-thread-safety'
> '--enable-integer-datetimes' '--without-python' '--without-perl'
> '--without-tcl' '--with-openssl' '--with-pam' '--with-krb5'
> '--with-gssapi' '--with-ldap' '--with-libxml' '--with-libxslt'
> '--with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo' 'CFLAGS=-fmessage-length=0
> -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables
> -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -g '

--without-perl? --without-python? What are these people thinking?
(Personally I don't like --without-tcl either, but I know not so
many people care about that one anymore.)

File an RFE, or find a more clueful distro.

regards, tom lane