moving an installation

[David Parker]

I need to be able to build postgres (7.4.3) with a given --prefix, but
then pack up the installation directory and deploy it in another
directory (as part of a product install, for instance).

I configured with --disable-rpath, but I'm still getting the

creating conversions... ERROR: could not access file
"$libdir/ascii_and_mic": No such file or directory

error when I try to run initdb from the new location. This is on Solaris
9, and I've verified that my LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes the postgres/lib
dir in the new location.

Is there a way I can get around this at runtime? I was under the
impression that --disable-rpath prevented library paths from being
compiled into the code, but maybe this "$libdir" is a different thing?

Thanks in advance for any help.

- DAP
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[Peter Eisentraut]

David Parker wrote:

I need to be able to build postgres (7.4.3) with a given --prefix,
but then pack up the installation directory and deploy it in another
directory (as part of a product install, for instance).

I configured with --disable-rpath, but I'm still getting the

This doesn't work. There are a lot more paths compiled in than just the
rpath. If you want to change the installation paths, you need to
rebuild from scratch.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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[Tom Lane]

Peter Eisentraut <pe*****@gmx.net> writes:

David Parker wrote:

I need to be able to build postgres (7.4.3) with a given --prefix,
but then pack up the installation directory and deploy it in another
directory (as part of a product install, for instance).

This doesn't work.

Not at the moment anyway. Bruce and some other people did some work
last month towards supporting relocatable installs --- David, would you
like to experiment with CVS tip and see if it works for you?

regards, tom lane

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