Re: BUG #5062: 8.4.1 compile fails on debian can't find libdl

Thanks I am doing it all the hard way.
I will do it again when I can find time.
pw

Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>
>> "philip wright" <zphw@de1.uga.duke.edu> writes:
>>> Description:        8.4.1 compile fails on debian can't find libdl
>> Our Debian packager would certainly have complained before now if PG
>> didn't build on Debian.  I suspect that you have forgotten to install
>> some needed support files.  Does Debian have the equivalent of -devel
>> subpackages?  If so you're probably missing whatever -devel package
>> goes with libdl.
>
> debian provides friendly package building tools:
>
>   http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/postgresql-8.4
>
>   # install all build dependancies for postgresql-8.4
>   apt-get build-dep postgresql-8.4
>
>   # build it with debian defaults etc
>   apt-get source -b postgresql-8.4
>
>   # or only get the sources
>   apt-get source postgresql-8.4
>
> If you want to tweak the debian options choices, see apt-build.
>
> And if the problem is related to building client or server tools for
> postgresql, then you have the -devel kind of packages:
>
>   apt-get install postgresql-server-dev-8.4 libpq-dev
>
> Regards,