Re: pgNixInstaller: Making PostgreSQL relocatable - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: pgNixInstaller: Making PostgreSQL relocatable
Date
Msg-id 200603240823.03985.peter_e@gmx.net
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: pgNixInstaller: Making PostgreSQL relocatable  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
List pgsql-hackers
Greg Stark wrote:
> I'm sure this isn't the only possible gotcha but I do seem to recall
> that on Solaris there's no such thing as a default LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> Every binary stores absolute paths to every shared library it's
> linked against.

On Solaris you can actually use relative library paths by writing 
$ORIGIN in the path.  We don't do that right now, but it's possible.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Thomas Hallgren
Date:
Subject: Re: Worthwhile optimisation of position()?
Next
From: Christopher Kings-Lynne
Date:
Subject: Re: Worthwhile optimisation of position()?