On 6 Aug 2003 at 9:51, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Shridhar Daithankar writes: > > > Can anybody tell me what flags etc. are to be used. I have a slackware 9.0 > > installation with most of the developer tools I believe. I can give it a shot. > > When you configure, enable everything: > > --enable-nls --enable-thread-safety --with-tcl --with-perl --with-python > --with-java --with-krb5 --with-pam --with-openssl
Well thanks for all the hints. That was a real nice HOWTO. I will see if I can build that. I am worrid about java part of it. No java on my machine. But will work that out. > > Use --prefix=/usr. That should get all the paths right. (There may be > room for refinement, but not FHS lawyer can argue against what > --prefix=/usr gives you.) > > Add optimizing CFLAGS according to local custom. I think O2 is enough. > If the Slackware package system does not strip binaries automatically, use > make install-strip instead of make install. It does. Anyway I will be using checkinstall. It will give a single postgresql package. I am not going to make effort of splitting it all along. Personally I find it useful to have everything installed. > Call make install-all-headers. > > Make sure ldconfig is called somewhere. > > Use /var/lib/postgresql/data as the data dir. > > Then you need to figure out how to start the server at boot time. Use > contrib/start-scripts/linux as a start. OK. Will check that.. > > And finally, if you find something that local custom dictates but is not > easily supported by the standard distribution, let us know. Will keep it updated.. Bye Shridhar -- O'Toole's commentary on Murphy's Law: Murphy was an optimist. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
