Message-ID: <376A32FC.2299FE16@lee.k12.nc.us>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:52:28 -0400
From: James Olin Oden <joden@lee.k12.nc.us>
Organization: Lee County Schools
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To: "George P. Esperanza" <george@calamba.laguna.net>
CC: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Perl Interface
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"George P. Esperanza" wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Sorry, i guess this problem has been posted before...
> 
> I tried installing postgres and it looks fine, my problem now is i want
> PERL to communicate to my postgres database.  I download some modules from
> CPAN and tried installing them, unfortunately i encountered this problem
> which i don't know when installing Postgres-1.4.tar.gz.
> 
> Checking if your kit is complete...
> Looks good
> Note (probably harmless) : No library found for -lpq
> 
> I already installed DBI-1.06.tar.gz and DBD-Pg-092.tar.gz prior to this.
> By the way i'm using Linux 2.0.35 kernel.
> 
> Please help...
> 
> George

I too had various problems trying to install Pg, until I realized that
you can actually build Postgres and it will install it for you.  I
forget what the switch is
you have to give the configure script but it is in the docs.

Hope this helps...james