Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] Build problem with CVS version

2001-09-10 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday 06 September 2001 07:46 pm, John Summerfield wrote: > I'd point out this from the INSTALL document: > --prefix=PREFIX [snip] > Installing everything under --prefix (as the document says) would also > help package builders; the current rpm looks pretty horrible (and > that's why I

Re: [BUGS] Build problem with CVS version

2001-09-10 Thread John Summerfield
> Tom Lane writes: > > > > What we probably want is some configure switch that switches between the > > > current behaviour and the behaviour you want. > > > > I'd suggest --prefix-like options to determine installation locations > > for the perl and python modules, > > Basically, I was envision

Re: [BUGS] Build problem with CVS version

2001-09-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: > > What we probably want is some configure switch that switches between the > > current behaviour and the behaviour you want. > > I'd suggest --prefix-like options to determine installation locations > for the perl and python modules, Basically, I was envisioning some option li

Re: [BUGS] Build problem with CVS version

2001-09-04 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a very valid concern, and it's been bugging us, too. The problem > is that by default, the majority of users would probably want the Perl and > Python modules to be put in the default place where they're easy to find > for the interpreter. (

Re: [BUGS] Build problem with CVS version

2001-09-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
John Summerfield writes: > To my dismay some components don't honour the "--prefix=/tmp/postgresql" > specification and try to install in some other location. > > I'd much prefer for the perl and python components to install into the > location I specified, and to leave me to discuss with Perl a

[BUGS] Build problem with CVS version

2001-09-04 Thread John Summerfield
I'm running on Red Hat Linux 7.1 with all official updates. I have a problem or two with PostgreSQL and thought to test against the CVS version so as to avoid the suggestion (as happened recently) to "try this later version." I particularly want to install the package in some out-of-the-way pl