Re: Error installing postgresql-7.3.2 (fixed, but Q remains...)

Jon Earle <je_pgsql@kronos.honk.org> writes:
> On Thu, 8 May 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Should we take it out of configure?

> Hmm.. this could be problematic.  How then could one build binaries that
> can be simply dropped onto nearly any system with assurances that it will
> work?

If you mean "drop them into nearly any random place in the filesystem",
the answer is you can't.  Not relying on shared libraries would do
little to improve the situation.  BINDIR and PKGLIBDIR are both
hard-wired into various executables, and there may be other installation
paths hard-wired as well.

            regards, tom lane