Re: Questions on 8.1 install

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> Scott Marlowe wrote:
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>On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 12:39, Gary Horton wrote:
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>>My primary question: is this the correct interest list for questions
>>about installation? I'll stop there until someone confirms for me that
>>I'm doing the right thing -- if you would be so kind, please cc me at my
>>email since I'm not signed up to receive interest-list messages...
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>This would be the list. Be sure and include the OS and version you're
>running, and anything else that you think might be useful to help folks
>figure out how to help ya...
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Thanks Scott!

My OS is Solaris 9, and I'm trying to install Postgres 8.1.0. One of our
primary concerns is to have a relocatable install (which, for us, means
we can tar up the existing install and plop it down somewhere else, and
it will still work -- i.e. there are no absolute pathnames /compiled/
into the Postgres).

Here are my questions, from reading through the INSTALL document:

* what is --disable-rpath? This is mentioned wrt "if you want
relocatability" but nothing else is mentioned in INSTALL...should
I use this? Why, or why not?
* Does use of the --prefix compromise relocatability? I'm hoping
this just specifies where the final output directories are
written, and it is not referenced as a top-level path in the
compiled binaries (so that, again, I can tar these output
directories up and move them somewhere else)?
* In the --prefix comments (in INSTALL doc), mention is made of not
leaving "the following options" at their defaults if you want a
relocatable installation, but it's unclear whether this mean ALL
of the following options or just the ones up to the point where
the Note appears about "shared installation locations"...or just
what it means. Can someone clarify?
* --enable-nls[=LANGUAGES] ... if I specify this with a list of
languages, how do I confirm it's working? Would this involve e.g.
setenv of certain variables and then looking at the exception
messages coming from database, or just how would you suggest I
confirm this? We would care about this so that e.g. any database
error messages would be automatically localized...is this the same
kind of thing that enable-nls does for us?
* configure options that we "used to use" (I've inherited an old
codebase here and am trying to get up-to-date) which are
apparently not offered anymore (?)
o --with-template=solaris (this looks like it's for older
versions)
o --enable-syslog (seems like others have used it recently,
but I find no documentation about it)
o --enable-locale (seems like others have used it recently,
but I find no documentation about it)
o --enable-multibyte (this looks like it's for older versions?)
o --with-java (I find no documentation about it in 8.1.0
install, although yes it is there in 7.3.4 install - removed?)
* why should I (or should I not) use --enable-thread-safety (i.e.
what's my motivation...)? I understand thread-safety of course,
but just want more clarity of what it means in this context
(postgres). What trade-offs should I be aware of?

Thanks so much for anyone's insights. Once again, if you would be so
kind, please cc me at my email since I'm not signed up to receive
interest-list messages...

- Gary