Re: postgresql compilation from source...
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:45:43PM -0800, Lev Lvovsky wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> >
> > thanks for the quick response!
> >
> > this is my first attempt with compiling debian source, so I may have just
> > gotten a tougher package than most...
>
> Probably, postgresql is not a simple package.
*nod* ;)
> Well, the rules file builds a package with a given set up options. The
> install done by the Makefile might not be right so there may be some
> shuffling around after.
ahh, ok, this answers a lot. I thought the rules file was some magical
file that could adapt to the countless combinations that users might throw
at it...
> If you want to submit a patch to make it easy, go ahead. But it's not
> something many debian packages are built towards.
where does one read about patch submission?
thanks for helping me on this guys!
-lev
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