I recommend building the entire thing, then grabbing the perl part.
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
>
> Today, our newest employee thought he'd upgrade the Perl interface to
> Postgres. So, he went into the source directory, and did "gmake install"
> in the /src/interfaces/Perl5 directory. Now, everything's broken. Trying
> to use it, we get:
>
> perl: error in loading shared libraries:
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/i386-linux/auto/Pg/Pg.so: undefined symbol:
> PQconnectdb
>
> Now, here's where it gets reeeeely nice. The last system admin, who is
> now gone, has about 50 copies of the postgress source lying around on the
> disk (really bright guy). They're all 6.5.3, except for the rpm's for
> 6.5.3-2 and 6.5.3-2nl.
>
> So, at this point, I have two choices: Dump all data, reinstall, and
> restore (a few days of dumping/restoring), or some nice soul can suggest
> how I can fix this....
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> steve
>
>
--
Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle
pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000
+ If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue
+ Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026