about RPM build options

On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 15:57 +0900, 勝俣 智成 wrote:

1. enable thread safety?
"--disable-thread-safety" is given.
Before version 8.4, "--enable-thread-safety" is given for thread
safe client library.
I think it is not compatible before release. Is this intention
thing?

It is a packaging error, and fixed in SVN. I will push a new set soon.

2. enable dtrace?
"--enable-dtrace" is not given.
I want to give "--enable-dtrace", but is there any reason not to
give it?

I did not include it in PGDG RPMs for various reasons in the past. You
may want to recompile srpm for that.
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I've checked the build options for PostgreSQL 9.0.1,
I had some questions.

I downloaded rpms from below site.
http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v9.0.1/linux/rpms/redhat/rhel-5-x86_64/

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1. enable thread safety?
"--disable-thread-safety" is given.
Before version 8.4, "--enable-thread-safety" is given for thread safe client library.
I think it is not compatible before release. Is this intention thing?

2. enable dtrace?
"--enable-dtrace" is not given.
I want to give "--enable-dtrace", but is there any reason not to give it?
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If there are any problem, please fix and add these options.

regards,
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Tomonari Katsumata

It is also possible to compile from the PostgreSQL-source by yourself.
I did it already for RHEL5 x86-64 without any problems.

Compiling is easy, and well documented, under the condition that you've installed several development packages on RHEL.
For example, you need zlib-devel, readline-devel, development tools (gcc and gmake) and of course the kernel sources.
Maybe you want OpenSSL then you need OpenSSL-devel too.
I've no experience with "--enable-dtrace" so maybe you need an extra development package.

Give it a try, there are several benefits for compiling by yourself.

Regards, Derk Jan Horstman

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On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 09:44:44AM +0200, Derk Jan Horstman wrote:

I downloaded rpms from below site.
http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v9.0.1/linux/rpms/redhat/rhel-5-x86_64/

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1. enable thread safety?
"--disable-thread-safety" is given.

Where is the flag "given?" I've never looked at these pre-packaged things
and this is why. I don't know what they are (read, to lazy to chase it).
The logical extention, is there any consistent place to look between
the different platform package deals? Should there be?

On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 10:28 -0400, Ray Stell wrote:

1. enable thread safety?
"--disable-thread-safety" is given.

Where is the flag "given?"

It is in the RPM spec file.
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
PostgreSQL RPM Repository: http://yum.pgrpms.org
Community: devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr
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