Re: moving an installation

Oh, that's good to know. I haven't ventured into what's going on in CVS
yet, so this will be a good excuse.

Thanks.

- DAP

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:31 PM
To: Peter Eisentraut
Cc: David Parker; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] moving an installation

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> David Parker wrote:
>> I need to be able to build postgres (7.4.3) with a given --prefix,
>> but then pack up the installation directory and deploy it in another
>> directory (as part of a product install, for instance).

> This doesn't work.

Not at the moment anyway.  Bruce and some other people did some work
last month towards supporting relocatable installs --- David, would you
like to experiment with CVS tip and see if it works for you?

            regards, tom lane

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