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Log Message: ----------- Clarify a number of points, notably that you need to include quite a number of ./configure parameters... Modified Files: -------------- slony1-engine: INSTALL (r1.5 -> r1.6) -------------- next part -------------- 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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