CVS User Account cvsuser
Thu Jun 16 20:31:43 PDT 2005
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
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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.)
 
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@@ -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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