Pg and libperl issue

I found that my first guess about why this isn't working wasn't
correct.

Make is deciding that it doesn't have permission to install the Pg
stuff and was skipping that part. I mssed that message and just
thought that the error from the PL/Perl make was stopping the make
install at that point.

I am not sure why the protection test was failing. The install was
being done as root. Pg.so and a couple of other files were installed
without write access to the owner, but after changing this for the
files I found, it still didn't work as expected.

I wasn't able to find where this stuff was being checked, but I was
able to get it installed by doing the make install in the interefaces/perl5
directory as suggested by the error message.

Bruno Wolff III wrote:

I built 7.1RC1 last march and Pg.so was created.
I built 7.1.2 since then, but the time stamp for Pg.so is from the 7.1RC1
build.
I built 7.1.3 a few minutes ago and I am getting an error because
libperl is not shared. It seems both Pg and PL/Perl are controlled
by the --with-perl config option.
I can live without PL/Perl for the immediate future, but would like
to get Pg.so updated.

I am not sure if this is a change in how postgres builds or if I did
something different.

I don't think Pg needs libperl to be shared, so it would be nice if
there was a way to enable one of these (Pg) without the other (so that
make doesn't die).

In the short run I am going to look at the make files and get PL/Perl
to not die (or not have make run in that directory).

I am doing the build on a redhat 6.1 system. I am using the rpm version
of perl (perl-5.00503-6), but have added on a number of modules (from
cpan, but installed by hand).

I have a simple mod to the perl RPM that make the libperl.so in addition
to perl itself. My mods are for a redhat7.1 system, but it may not be
too difficult to retrofit.

Any interest?

--
Karl

Bruno Wolff III writes:

I built 7.1RC1 last march and Pg.so was created.
I built 7.1.2 since then, but the time stamp for Pg.so is from the 7.1RC1
build.

Try removing the old installation first (which is an extremely good idea
in any case). There *might* be an issue with the Perl installer trying to
be smart.

I don't think Pg needs libperl to be shared, so it would be nice if
there was a way to enable one of these (Pg) without the other (so that
make doesn't die).

In the short run I am going to look at the make files and get PL/Perl
to not die (or not have make run in that directory).

That's how it should work.

--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter