DBD::Pg installation

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 05:51:57PM -0400, Michelle Murrain wrote:

I'm trying to get DBD::Pg installed (I've tried directly and through
CPAN) - and I get the following error: please set environment
variables POSTGRES_INCLUDE and POSTGRES_LIB!

I looked then at the source tree - found the README, then looked at
the makefile. The variables POSTGRES_INCLUDE and POSTGRES_LIB need
the variable POSTGRES_HOME.

You don't actually need to define POSTGRES_HOME (or at least, I've
never done it and I've installed DBD::Pg numerous times).

The following should work:

sh
export POSTGRES_INCLUDE=/usr/local/pgsql/include
export POSTGRES_LIB=/usr/local/pgsql/lib
perl Makefile.PL
# continue with installation from here

Assuming you've installed PgSQL in /usr/local/pgsql . Once you've
done the above, follow the rest of the steps in the README
(make; su; make install).

If you're running csh and don't want to change to Bourne, just
replace 'export' with 'setenv' (and don't use '=').

HTH,

Neil

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At 5:51 PM -0400 9/25/00, Michelle Murrain wrote:

Hi Folks,

I'm trying to get DBD::Pg installed (I've tried directly and through
CPAN) - and I get the following error: please set environment
variables POSTGRES_INCLUDE and POSTGRES_LIB!

I looked then at the source tree - found the README, then looked at
the makefile. The variables POSTGRES_INCLUDE and POSTGRES_LIB need
the variable POSTGRES_HOME.

I defined $POSTGRES_HOME (/usr/local/pgsql) in the makefile, tried
to make it again (perl Makefile.pl) and got the same error again!

Suggestions??

Never mind - solved the problem meself. Thanks anyway.

Michelle
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