Re: executables when upgrading

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 14:58:34 -0700,
  Jay O'Connor <joconnor@cybermesa.com> wrote:
> I have some servers to install postgres on.  They already have 7.1 on them
> and I'm installing 7.3.2.  The install for 7.1 put everything in /usr/bin/,
> but the install for 7.3.2 puts everything in /usr/local/pgsql/bin.  Anyway
> to make the install put the binaries in /usr/bin/? Otherwise I just have
> ascript that removes the binaries from /usr/bin/ and replaces them with
> symlinks to the files in /usr/local/pgsql/bin

If you are building from source you can set this when running configure.
Use the --help option to see the options for controlling where various
things get installed.