Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Enver ALTIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> s/doable/already done/, no? > > > I did a Google search on "relocatable PostgreSQL" and the first > > result[1] said it's already done. Apparently it didn't work for me on > > Solaris 8 (linking problems). I'll be looking at it sometime today. > > OK ... it's supposed to work to shift the whole installation tree to > a new root, ie, paths to places like the /share and /lib directories > are determined relative to where the backend executable actually is. > If this is not working on Solaris then for sure we want to know ...
I'm sure this isn't the only possible gotcha but I do seem to recall that on Solaris there's no such thing as a default LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Every binary stores absolute paths to every shared library it's linked against. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
