Re: Relocatable installs

Jan Wieck wrote:
> > I think if we go for the plan outlined, we will not need a special
> > configure flag. (People might decide to move the install dir long after
> > they install it.) By default, everything sits under pgsql as pgsql/bin,
> > pgsql/lib, etc. I can't see how making it relative is going to bite us
> > unless folks move the binaries out of pgsql/bin. Is that common for
> > installs that don't specify a special bindir?
> >
>
> Does that include a mechanism for -rpath?
>
> Currently, if you have multiple installations of PostgreSQL on a server
> and call ones psql or whatever explicitly, it is not loading another
> ones libpq, but for sure the one belonging to its version. How does the
> plan you're talking about cover this?

Someone asked about rpath, and I didn't deal with it. How many
platforms use rpath? I am not sure.

I assume folks are going to have to modify their ld.so.conf to point to
the proper library, or for non-root, set an environment variable like
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

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