> So - just use rpath linkage for your added libraries, storing them in a > private directory. Please. Argh. It's worse than I hoped. Libraries the One-Click installer tramples all over include: libxml2 libssl libcrypto libreadline libtermcap libuuid ... all of which have the same names and in some cases soversions that they're likely to have in the OS packages. As libpq.so.5 is also added to the linker path, if a user has a distro-packaged version of PostgreSQL which has the same soversion of libpq then the distro-packaged psql etc is also likely to use the one-click install's libpq, leading to the potential for all sorts of exciting breakage if they've been built with different options. An incomplete list of binaries clearly affected by library conflict issues such as the libxml one the OP reported is, as checked in my Ubuntu 9.04 install: /usr/bin/amstex /usr/bin/bonobo-browser /usr/bin/bug-buddy /usr/bin/compiz.real /usr/bin/devhelp /usr/bin/dvd95 /usr/bin/dwell-click-applet /usr/bin/editor /usr/bin/ekiga /usr/bin/eog /usr/bin/etex /usr/bin/eview /usr/bin/evim /usr/bin/evolution /usr/bin/evolution-addressbook-export /usr/bin/ex /usr/bin/gedit /usr/bin/gnome-about-me /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties /usr/bin/gnome-default-applications-properties /usr/bin/gnome-desktop-item-edit /usr/bin/gnome-help /usr/bin/gnome-keyboard-properties /usr/bin/gnome-open /usr/bin/gnome-panel /usr/bin/gnome-phone-manager /usr/bin/gnome-pilot-make-password /usr/bin/gnome-text-editor /usr/bin/gnomevfs-cat /usr/bin/gnomevfs-copy /usr/bin/gnomevfs-df /usr/bin/gnomevfs-info /usr/bin/gnomevfs-ls /usr/bin/gnomevfs-mkdir /usr/bin/gnomevfs-monitor /usr/bin/gnomevfs-mv /usr/bin/gnomevfs-rm /usr/bin/gnome-volume-properties /usr/bin/gpilot-applet /usr/bin/gpilotd /usr/bin/gpilotd-control-applet /usr/bin/gpilotd-session-wrapper /usr/bin/gpilot-install-file /usr/bin/grip /usr/bin/gthumb /usr/bin/gview /usr/bin/gvim /usr/bin/gvimdiff /usr/bin/inkscape /usr/bin/inkview /usr/bin/jadetex /usr/bin/latex /usr/bin/meinproc4 /usr/bin/msgattrib /usr/bin/msgcat /usr/bin/msgcmp /usr/bin/msgcomm /usr/bin/msgconv /usr/bin/msgen /usr/bin/msgexec /usr/bin/msgfilter /usr/bin/msgfmt /usr/bin/msggrep /usr/bin/msginit /usr/bin/msgmerge /usr/bin/msgunfmt /usr/bin/msguniq /usr/bin/nautilus /usr/bin/panel-test-applets /usr/bin/pdfetex /usr/bin/pdffonts /usr/bin/pdfimages /usr/bin/pdfinfo /usr/bin/pdfjadetex /usr/bin/pdflatex /usr/bin/pdftex /usr/bin/pdftoabw /usr/bin/pdftohtml /usr/bin/pdftoppm /usr/bin/pdftops /usr/bin/pdftotext /usr/bin/php5-cgi /usr/bin/php-cgi /usr/bin/pidgin /usr/bin/pointer-capture-applet /usr/bin/polkit-gnome-authorization /usr/bin/recode-sr-latin /usr/bin/rgview /usr/bin/rgvim /usr/bin/rhythmbox /usr/bin/rview /usr/bin/rvim /usr/bin/seahorse /usr/bin/seahorse-daemon /usr/bin/test-moniker /usr/bin/tracker-search-tool /usr/bin/vi /usr/bin/view /usr/bin/vim /usr/bin/vimdiff /usr/bin/vim.gnome /usr/bin/vinagre /usr/bin/vino-preferences /usr/bin/virsh /usr/bin/virt-viewer /usr/bin/xfce4-keyboard-settings /usr/bin/xfce4-settings-helper /usr/bin/xgettext /usr/bin/xmlcatalog /usr/bin/xmllint /usr/bin/yelp Other distros will experience different breakage. On Ubuntu 9.10, for example, the standard readline soversion is .5.2 so the libreadline.so.4 bundled in the oc installer won't break users of the distro-packaged libreadline. Ditto libssl and libcrypto (oc: .5.2 ; distro: .0.9.8 ). This needs really urgent attention. Step 1 is probably to rebuild the installer using libraries where everything has been given custom soversions; next step is to use rpath linkage to solve the problem properly. -- Craig Ringe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
