Re: postgresql and Mac OS X

On Nov 4, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Tom Allison <tom(at)tacocat(dot)net> writes:
>> I tried getting a source install on my mac book yesterday and today.
>> It's not a normal *nix installation. The location of the files are
>> all
>> non-standard.
>> 'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/.
>
> The question is *why* the location is nonstandard. Other people's
> Macs
> are not set up that way (mine seems to have these files in the
> expected
> place, for example).
>
>> I added /Developer/usr/bin to PATH and tried ./configure.
>
> That would help configure find the stuff in /Developer/usr/bin, but
> it does nothing for files that ought to be in /usr/lib, /usr/include,
> etc. I am not sure whether adding these to the configure command
> would be sufficient:
>
> --with-includes=/Developer/usr/include --with-libraries=/Developer/
> usr/lib

/Developer/usr/ shouldn't be linked against directly- this is the
location for OS X SDKs, so that binaries can be built and linked which
work on older versions of OS X than one is currently using.

Cheers,
M