Re: Postgres 7.1RC1 on Solaris 7

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Justin Clift <jclift@iprimus.com.au>
Cc: Ahmed Moustafa <ahmed.moustafa@bigfoot.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-04-07T17:50:01Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Justin Clift writes:

> It doesn't seem to have been mentioned that the preferable way to
> compile PostgreSQL on Solaris is to unset your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and set
> an LD_RUN_PATH instead.
>
> That is right isn't it?

Not really.  You don't need to set either of these variables.  In the
problem that was posted LD_LIBRARY_PATH was necessary to find a
non-PostgreSQL library.  This is a system administration issue, which any
other source package (that uses the library in question) would run into.

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