Re: Trouble finding libpq on Centos 6.5

On 05/08/2014 02:54 AM, Aqz wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm not sure if I should write here, or on a Centos mailing list...
>
> I have fresh, vanilla Centos 6.5 with postgresql yum repository added.
> I've successfully installed postgresql93 and postgresql93-libs packages, but still :
>
> $ ld -lpq
> ld: cannot find -lpq
>
> $ ldconfig -p
> libpq.so.5 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/pgsql-9.3/lib/libpq.so.5
> libpq.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/pgsql-9.3/lib/libpq.so
>
>
> What did I do wrong?
>
> --
> Wojtek
>
They put the postgres stuff in versioned directories.
there is a program you use to find out where stuff is.
do a man on pg_config

$ pg_config --bindir
/usr/pgsql-9.3/bin

$ pg_config

BINDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.3/bin
DOCDIR = /usr/share/doc/pgsql
HTMLDIR = /usr/share/doc/pgsql
INCLUDEDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.3/include
PKGINCLUDEDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.3/include
INCLUDEDIR-SERVER = /usr/pgsql-9.3/include/server
LIBDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.3/lib
PKGLIBDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.3/lib
LOCALEDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.3/share/locale
MANDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.3/share/man
SHAREDIR = /usr/pgsql-9.3/share
SYSCONFDIR = /etc/sysconfig/pgsql
PGXS = /usr/pgsql-9.3/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk
CONFIGURE = '--disable-rpath' '--prefix=/usr/pgsql-9.3' '--includedir=/usr/pgsql-9.3/include' '--mandir=/usr/pgsql-9.3/share/man' '--datadir=/usr/pgsql-9.3/share' '--with-perl' '--with-python' '--with-tcl' '--with-tclconfig=/usr/lib64' '--with-openssl' '--with-pam' '--with-krb5' '--with-gssapi' '--with-includes=/usr/include' '--with-libraries=/usr/lib64' '--enable-nls' '--with-ossp-uuid' '--with-libxml' '--with-libxslt' '--with-ldap' '--with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo' '--sysconfdir=/etc/sysconfig/pgsql' '--docdir=/usr/share/doc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -I/usr/include/et' 'CPPFLAGS= -I/usr/include/et'
CC = gcc
CPPFLAGS = -I/usr/include/et -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include
CFLAGS = -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -I/usr/include/et -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv
CFLAGS_SL = -fpic
LDFLAGS = -L../../../src/common -L/usr/lib64 -Wl,--as-needed
LDFLAGS_EX =
LDFLAGS_SL =
LIBS = -lpgport -lpgcommon -lxslt -lxml2 -lpam -lssl -lcrypto -lgssapi_krb5 -lz -lreadline -lcrypt -ldl -lm
VERSION = PostgreSQL 9.3.4

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