Scott Marlowe wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 12:39, Gary Horton wrote:
My primary question: is this the correct interest list for questions
about installation? I'll stop there until someone confirms for me that
I'm doing the right thing -- if you would be so kind, please cc me at my
email since I'm not signed up to receive interest-list messages...
This would be the list. Be sure and include the OS and version you're
running, and anything else that you think might be useful to help folks
figure out how to help ya...
Thanks Scott!
My OS is Solaris 9, and I'm trying to install Postgres 8.1.0. One of
our primary concerns is to have a relocatable install (which, for us,
means we can tar up the existing install and plop it down somewhere
else, and it will still work -- i.e. there are no absolute pathnames
/compiled/ into the Postgres).
Here are my questions, from reading through the INSTALL document:
- what is --disable-rpath? This is mentioned wrt "if you want
relocatability" but nothing else is mentioned in INSTALL...should I use
this? Why, or why not?
- Does use of the --prefix compromise relocatability? I'm hoping
this just specifies where the final output directories are written, and
it is not referenced as a top-level path in the compiled binaries (so
that, again, I can tar these output directories up and move them
somewhere else)?
- In the --prefix comments (in INSTALL doc), mention is made of not
leaving "the following options" at their defaults if you want a
relocatable installation, but it's unclear whether this mean ALL of the
following options or just the ones up to the point where the Note
appears about "shared installation
locations"...or just what it means. Can someone clarify?
- --enable-nls[=LANGUAGES] ... if I specify this with a list of
languages, how do I confirm it's working? Would this involve e.g.
setenv of certain variables and then looking at the exception messages
coming from database, or just how would you suggest I confirm this? We
would care about this so that e.g. any database error messages would be
automatically localized...is this the same kind of thing that
enable-nls does for us?
- configure options that we "used to use" (I've inherited an old
codebase here and am trying to get up-to-date) which are apparently not
offered anymore (?)
- --with-template=solaris (this looks like it's for older
versions)
- --enable-syslog (seems like others have used it recently, but I
find no documentation about it)
- --enable-locale (seems like others have used it recently, but I
find no documentation about it)
- --enable-multibyte (this looks like it's for older versions?)
- --with-java (I find no documentation about it in 8.1.0 install,
although yes it is there in 7.3.4 install - removed?)
- why should I (or should I not) use --enable-thread-safety (i.e.
what's my motivation...)? I understand thread-safety of course, but
just want more clarity of what it means in this context (postgres).
What trade-offs should I be aware of?
Thanks so much for anyone's insights. Once again, if you would be so
kind, please cc me at my email since I'm not signed up to receive
interest-list messages...
- Gary
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