Well, I would -- and I used to build a lot of stuff from source -- except there are a ton of other packages that Macports makes dead-simple to install.
Plus, I find Macports makes it easy to automate a server build in one script. The problem as I see it isn't Macports but my unfamiliarity with Postgresql. On 2011-10-07, at 6:21 PM, Scott Ribe wrote: > On Oct 7, 2011, at 5:38 PM, René Fournier wrote: > >> (Sorry, I'm a MySQL guy. I'm just trying to get started without asking too >> many dumb questions.) > > Frankly, I think you'd be better served by deleting the entirety of the > macports stuff and installing postgresql from source the normal UNIX way: > ./configure, make, sudo make install... That's the way I do it, and it works > fine on OS X. > > -- > Scott Ribe > scott_r...@elevated-dev.com > http://www.elevated-dev.com/ > (303) 722-0567 voice > > > > Best regards, René Fournier
