VA... they sell linux servers.
Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vince Vielhaber" <vev@michvhf.com>
To: "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: "phpp" <pgsql-php@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 1:20 PM
Subject: Installation problems was Re: is this list live?
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > > I'm guessing it's more like PHP and PostgreSQL just work so flawlessly
> > > together that noone has anything to say.
> >
> > Actually, I've been having problems installing the PHP-Postgres
> > interface on a VA Box running Postgres 7.0.2. I just thought that
> > nobody was on the list. SO, let me throw this out there:
> >
> > 1. Postgres was installed from RPM, and PHP4 was built from source
> > (because RPMs were not available at the time). The webserver we are
> > running is Xitami
> >
> > 2. When we tried to build the postgres interface from source, the make
> > crashes after about 5 minutes, saying that it can't find certain
> > libraries that are present and in the directory we supplied in the make
> > command line.
> >
> > 3. When we try to install from RPM, PHP-Postgres wants a library called
> > pgsql.so. THis library, as far as I can tell, does not exist in any of
> > the Postgres sources.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> Not sure right off what a "VA Box" is and I'm not familiar with Xitami,
> BUT I may be able to shed some light on things.
>
> In #2 above, it sounds like your OS installation is incomplete or you
> have some missing tools required to build PostgreSQL.
>
> Are you installing PostgreSQL from one of our RPMs or from somewhere
> else? If it's one of ours, check with Lamar Owen on this library. The
> only thing I can find that comes close is plpgsql and I doubt that's it.
>
> Vince.
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