pgsql-hackers_rebuilding_postgresql_from_src_rpm

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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Joe Conway
<joseph.conway@home.com>
From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 7.2b3 pg_dump, general 7.2b3 comments
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 19:59:04 -0500

On Thursday 29 November 2001 01:27 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> Joe Conway <joseph.conway@home.com> writes:
> > BTW, after your first reply, I started to load the new pg_dump into gdb
> > and discovered it had no debug symbols (recall I installed from RPM). Is
> > there a way to install the RPM with additional configure options without
> > rebuilding it?

> Don't know; certainly you'd have to recompile, but I dunno if you have
> to modify the source RPM or not.  Lamar?

Hmmm. You know, it would be a good idea, IMHO, to enable debugging symbols in 
the beta RPMs anyway.  So, I will do that for the next beta (or release 
candidate -- although, with that report from Jan, I wonder what the next 
release will be).

In the meantime, Joe, if you can rebuild the RPM from source, here's what to 
do:
1.)	rpm -i the source RPM.
2.)	If you've never built from a source RPM before, see 
/usr/share/docs/postgresql-7.2b3/README.rpm-dist for some more information.
3.)	Edit the spec file (on Red Hat, that would be in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS, 
name of 'postgresql.spec'), adding the following line near the top:
%define __os_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
4.)	Add the configure option.  The rpm build process by default runs strip on 
the binaries.....
5.)	rpm -ba postgresql.spec, wait a few minutes for the build, and pick up 
your RPMs in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386.

Or you can just wait until I upload a set with that line in it..... :-)

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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Joe Conway
<joseph.conway@home.com>
From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 7.2b3 pg_dump, general 7.2b3 comments
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:48:04 -0500

On Thursday 29 November 2001 07:59 pm, Lamar Owen wrote:
> Or you can just wait until I upload a set with that line in it..... :-)

Said set is now being uploaded to ftp.postgresql.org. Look for the 0.3PGDG 
sbinary et in /pub/binary/beta/RPMS/redhat-7.2, and the source in 
......./SRPMS

My my, --enable-debug and disabling stripping in the build sure does inflate 
the package size :-O

For reference: The entire binary set for 7.2b3-0.2PGDG weighs in at 7,036KB. 
The debug-enabled 7.2b3-0.3PGDG set weighs in at 11,240KB. The biggest 
increase is in the postgresql-contrib package, which increases from 1,192KB 
to 2,940KB.

This build also has --enable-cassert.

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