Re: pgNixInstaller: Making PostgreSQL relocatable

On Mar 24, 2006, at 7:25 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> Anyway, looking at the manpage of otool it doesn't say that it just
> prints the raw name, so perhaps it's doing the same as ldd. To be sure
> you'd need to strings the binary to see what it says.

Yes, strings shows the full path of prefix provided to configure. And  
I can tell you from experience it is not relocatable :).

Here is a bug I recently filed for pgAdmin which discusses the use of  
install_name_tool to make the reference relative. Certainly it would  
be better if they could be compiled with relative references, but at  
least I found a solution without having to understand gcc.

http://www.pgadmin.org/archives/pgadmin-support/2006-03/msg00053.php


John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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