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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2004-05-18 20:34:01 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2004-05-18 20:34:01 +0000
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Add some documentation on relocatable installs.
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-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.199 2004/05/17 16:06:25 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.200 2004/05/18 20:34:01 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="installation">
<title><![%standalone-include[<productname>PostgreSQL</>]]>
@@ -503,6 +503,16 @@ su - postgres
installation. (The <literal>man</> and <literal>doc</>
locations are not affected by this.)
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ For relocatable installs, you might want to use
+ <filename>configure</filename>'s <literal>--disable-rpath</>
+ option. Also, you will need to tell the operating system how
+ to find the shared libraries used by applications like
+ <application>psql</> either using a system-wide shared
+ library configuration file like <filename>ld.so.conf</>,
+ or an environment variable like <literal>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>