Andrew Dunstan writes: > How about if we have a configuration flag --enable-relocation which would > require a fixed layout based on an indeterminate root. This would have the > following effects: > > . if prefix did not contain 'postgres' or 'pgsql' then > 'postgresql' would be appended. > . all *dir configure options would be forbidden - they would > be based on the prefix as now, and since it would contain 'postgres' the > simple layout we want would be used. > . binaries would have a DEFINE which would mean they would know they > should look for other binaries and shared files in locations which are > fixed relative to their own location rather than in the hardcoded > locations.
Looks good to me. Others? Cheers, Claudio --- Certain disclaimers and policies apply to all email sent from Memetrics. For the full text of these disclaimers and policies see <a href="http://www.memetrics.com/emailpolicy.html">http://www.memetrics.com/em ailpolicy.html</a> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org