Re: Error installing postgresql-7.3.2 (fixed, but Q

On Mon, 12 May 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> Jon Earle <je_pgsql(at)kronos(dot)honk(dot)org> writes:
> > On Thu, 8 May 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Should we take it out of configure?
>
> > Hmm.. this could be problematic. How then could one build binaries that
> > can be simply dropped onto nearly any system with assurances that it will
> > work?
>
> If you mean "drop them into nearly any random place in the filesystem",
> the answer is you can't. Not relying on shared libraries would do
> little to improve the situation. BINDIR and PKGLIBDIR are both
> hard-wired into various executables, and there may be other installation
> paths hard-wired as well.

No, not quite what I meant. I mean, if I want to drop it onto a Suse box,
or an Older RH installation, or someone's customized Gentoo, or some such,
where the shared libs might be different versions, I'd have some trouble,
yes? OTOH, a statically built version could be plopped onto virtually
anything out there (within reason of course).

Cheers!
Jon

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