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Log Message:
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Clarify a number of points, notably that you need to include quite
a number of ./configure parameters...
Modified Files:
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slony1-engine:
INSTALL (r1.5 -> r1.6)
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Index: INSTALL
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/slony1/slony1-engine/INSTALL,v
retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -LINSTALL -LINSTALL -u -w -r1.5 -r1.6
--- INSTALL
+++ INSTALL
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@
to provide correct client libraries.
The location of the PostgreSQL source-tree was specified with the
-configure option --with-pgsourcetree=<dir>. As of 1.1, this is no longer
-necessary; instead, locations of database components are specified
-individually, such as:
+configure option --with-pgsourcetree=<dir>. As of 1.1, this configure
+option no longer exists, instead, locations of database components are
+specified individually, such as:
--with-pgconfigdir=<dir> Location of the PostgreSQL pg_config program.
--with-pgbindir=<dir> Location of the PostgreSQL postmaster.
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@
otherwise the server headers will not be installed, and Slony-I will
be unable to compile.
+After running configure, you may wish to review the file
+"Makefile.global" to ensure it is looking in the right places for all of
+the components. If you failed to specify some of those locations, you
+may discover that your system fills in some surprising values...
+
Files Installed
==================
@@ -64,7 +69,7 @@
At the very least, the two shared objects installed in the $libdir
directory must be installed onto every computer that is supposed to
-become a Slony node. (Other components may be able to be invoked
+become a Slony node. (Other components may be able to be loaded
remotely from other hosts.)
altperl Administration tools
@@ -80,6 +85,8 @@
has been discovered and written down about the care and feeding of
Slony-I.
+This is only built if you specify "--with-docs"
+
Note that you may have difficulty building the documentation on Red
Hat-based systems due to NAMELEN being set way too low. Havoc
Pennington opened a bug on this back in mid-2001, back in the days of
@@ -107,8 +114,8 @@
If you are running a pre-8.0 version of PostgreSQL, and the packagers
did not use "make install-all-headers" to install server headers, you
-may discover that you are forced to throw the prepackaged version
-overboard and build PostgreSQL yourself.
+may find yourself forced to throw the prepackaged version overboard and
+build PostgreSQL yourself.
If you are looking for what software dependancies there are, it may be
useful to look at the files debian/control or redhat/slony-I.spec to
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