[olug] DBD::Pg compile error

[John Dickson]

I followed the pre-requisites list and I have installed Fedora Core 2. 
Development of rpm's for this I have not yet found.  I was on a Debian 
weekend but had multiple issues around hardware and lack of familiarity. 
I think I went through 20+ various Ddebian installed. From Network to 
CD, 2.4.25 to 2.6.5 kernel. I was really impressed with the  network 
install. It just seemed to fall short.

 From what I can tell, the compile failed initially because of a lack of 
"pg-config". I had to manually point the location version info (failed 
and reinstalled) directory location etc.

Christopher Cashell wrote:

>At Tue, 25 May 04, Unidentified Flying Banana jman at neonramp.com, said:
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>>I have been pulling my hair out trying to get the perl module DBD::Pg to
>>compile on RDFC2. Below is only a partial of a much larger series of
>>similar errors.
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>>I would appreciated any help on this
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>I've never actually tried compiling this module (Debian makes life so
>easy, sometimes ;-), so I'm guessing on some of this. However, at a
>glance, it appears to be looking for things (libraries?) and not finding
>them.
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>>John
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>>I have run the prerequisite perl installs and each time I am returned with:
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>What about the non-Perl prerequisite? ;-)
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>Do you have PostgreSQL, and in particular, the client libraries (and
>probably the client library development files), installed?
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>The DBD-Pg module README lists the following requirements:
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> build, test, and install Perl 5         (at least 5.6.1)
> build, test, and install the DBI module (at least 1.35)
> build, test, and install PostgreSQL     (at least 7.2)
> build, test, and install Test::Simple   (at least 0.30)
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>Can you verify that all of those are in fact installed and working?
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>Also, just out of curiosity, is there a reason you're building from
>source, instead of just grabbing the RPM?  I admit that I've not used
>Fedora Core, but I remember this being fairly readily available via RPM
>on Red Hat, last time I tried it.
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>[Snip: Errors.]
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>>make: *** [Pg.o] Error 1
>>  /usr/bin/make  -- NOT OK
>>Running make test
>>  Can't test without successful make
>>Running make install
>>  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
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