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Re: How to Build Postgres in a Portable / Relocatable fashion? 3+ messages / 3 participants [nested] [flat]
* Re: How to Build Postgres in a Portable / Relocatable fashion? @ 2024-05-03 23:27 AJ ONeal <[email protected]> 0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: AJ ONeal @ 2024-05-03 23:27 UTC (permalink / raw) To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > > Back in the good old days there was official 1st-party support for Linux: > This > was/is a third party site. Oh. I thought that EDB was *the* Postgres company like MySQL AB was *the* MySQL company. My mistake. > and `apt` is always half-a-decade out-of-date I misspoke. I meant the OS repos more than apt itself. > As to Apt build scripts: I was just using apt as an example. I don't actually want to deal with apt or .debs. What I want to create (and provide) is a portable tarball that has most of all what it needs in the tarball and will look for relevant libraries relative to itself. Something that Just Works™ *almost* anywhere (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, Suse... maybe even Alpine). Any idea how to do that? ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: How to Build Postgres in a Portable / Relocatable fashion? @ 2024-05-03 23:44 Tom Lane <[email protected]> parent: AJ ONeal <[email protected]> 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Tom Lane @ 2024-05-03 23:44 UTC (permalink / raw) To: AJ ONeal <[email protected]>; +Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> AJ ONeal <[email protected]> writes: > What I want to create (and provide) is a portable tarball that has > most of all what it needs in the tarball and will look for relevant > libraries relative to itself. See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/installation.html particularly the discussion of installation relocatability under https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/install-make.html#CONFIGURE-OPTIONS-LOCATIONS In short, you have to specify an installation path, but as long as you don't muck with the relative locations of the subdirectories it should be possible to move the whole tree to a different installation location. > Something that Just Works™ *almost* anywhere (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, Suse... maybe even Alpine). That's a little harder, mainly because the shared libraries for dependencies like openssl etc may not be 100% compatible across all those platforms. Different versions, different build options, yadda yadda. Maybe you should be thinking in terms of a docker container or the like? regards, tom lane ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: How to Build Postgres in a Portable / Relocatable fashion? @ 2024-05-04 17:56 [email protected] parent: AJ ONeal <[email protected]> 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: [email protected] @ 2024-05-04 17:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: [email protected] On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 11:27:12PM GMT, AJ ONeal wrote: > What I want to create (and provide) is a portable tarball that has > most of all what it needs in the tarball and will look for relevant > libraries relative to itself. Something that Just Works™ *almost* > anywhere (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, Suse... maybe even Alpine). Alpine is based on musl (not glibc), so you're pretty much OOL at least on that point. Have you thought about using a container? -- Ian ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 3+ messages in thread
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