[WBEL-users] PostgreSQL build problem.

[bishop]

Lamar,

There's no appropriate sleuthing done by the RPM?

I'd recommend making it intentionally blow chunks on rebuild if the user 
doesn't specify the distro, then.

But I'd really be all about doing the guesswork in a nasty but reliable 
bit of macro.  I do that for a bit of my stuff, which has to build 
differently on {ol31{,1},rh{6,7,8,9,el3},ul1,cl{7,8,9},wbel,tao}.  It's 
a nasty script and a few lines of simple support macros, but I no longer 
have to think about which distro this thing is *like*.

Also, most of my builds are out of CVS, and CVS is as stupid as I am.

  - bish
Leonard Shelby

Lamar Owen wrote:

> On Wednesday 27 October 2004 16:45, Rafael Baquero S. wrote:
> 
>>I am trying to build postgresql-7.4.6-2PGDG.src.rpm or
>>postgresql-7.4.6-1.FC3.1.src.rpm unsuccessfully so far.
> 
> 
> While I just day before yesterday stepped down as active RPM maintainer for 
> the PostgreSQL Development Group, I can authoritatively answer this one.
> 
> RPMs already exist in binary form for WBEL;  they are built for RHEL3.  Look 
> in /pub/binary/v7.4.6/rpms/redhat/rhel-3 on ftp.postgresql.org. However, if 
> you must rebuild from source, you need to supply a couple of command line 
> options to the rebuild.
> 
> The PostgreSQL RPM spec file has a number of command line options, available 
> from the rpmbuild command, to control the build. The default build is for 
> FC2.  Try:
> rpmbuild --rebuild --define 'build9 1' postgresql-7.4.6-2PGDG.src.rpm
> 
> (RHEL3 and by extension WBEL3 is mostly RHL9-compatible)  RHAS 2.1=RHL7.2+, 
> RHEL3=RHL9+, RHEL4=FC2+ (once it's actually released).  Other command line 
> options include build6x, build7x (good for RHAS2.1), build8, and build9.  
> There are others; see the top of postgresql.spec for details.

> As to the python errors, make sure python-devel is installed.
> 
> I just now rebuilt the from-ftp.postgresql.org source rpm with that command 
> line, and got binaries.

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