Re: Installing plpython3u

On 15 October 2015 at 16:23, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Dario Beraldi <dario(dot)beraldi(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> >> It might be worth cd'ing into the src/pl/plpython subdirectory and
> >> manually doing "make install" there to see what it prints.
>
> > Here we go:
> > cd
> >
> /data/sblab-home/berald01/applications/postgresql/postgresql-9.3.5/src/pl/plpython
> > make install
> > make: Nothing to be done for `install'.
>
> That, and the fact that your "ls" shows no derived files, means that the
> Makefile is choosing not to do anything, which a look at the Makefile
> says must be because shared_libpython isn't getting set. (As of 9.5
> we've changed that to not fail silently, but in 9.3 this is what it does.)
>
> There are two possibilities here: either your python3 installation does
> not include a shared-library version of libpython, or it does but the
> configure+Make process is failing to detect that. Probably should
> establish which of those it is before going further.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

Ahh, I guess this answers the question then:

cd
/data/sblab-home/berald01/applications/postgresql/postgresql-9.3.5/src/pl/plpython/
make

*** Cannot build PL/Python because libpython is not a shared library.
*** You might have to rebuild your Python installation. Refer to
*** the documentation for details.

Right, it looks like I have to rebuild python then.
Thanks guys!
Dario