Re: Trouble connecting locally after 9.2.4 upgrade

On 04 Apr 13 17 20, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Campbell, Lance" <lance(at)illinois(dot)edu> writes:
> > I figured it all out. When I ran the configuration script I told it
> > to put the code in pgsql-9.2.4. Then after the code installed I
> > moved it to pgsql-9.2. Then the install could not find the proper
> > libraries. So it used the system one. I reinstalled but this time
> > with the target directory of pgsql-9.2. It worked fine. I don't
> > need the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH now.
>
> Hah. Right, because configure would have set things up to build psql
> etc with rpaths pointing to the lib directory under the installation
> directory it was told to use. So it'd work until you moved the lib
> directory.
>
> Moral: be careful about relocating installed trees.

That's why I like to use LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath,'$ORIGIN/../lib'"
when I build. It makes the install tree relocatable.

--
Bruce Hunsaker

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