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

Devrim,

Thanks for the super fast fix!

Chris

On Feb 8, 2013, at 5:56 PM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> wrote:

>
> 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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