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diff --git a/src/interfaces/perl5/README b/src/interfaces/perl5/README index 04fa867a90c..b49ca34fdf7 100644 --- a/src/interfaces/perl5/README +++ b/src/interfaces/perl5/README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ #------------------------------------------------------- # -# $Id: README,v 1.4 1997/09/25 21:14:46 mergl Exp $ +# $Id: README,v 1.5 1998/02/20 21:25:42 mergl Exp $ # # Copyright (c) 1997 Edmund Mergl # @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DESCRIPTION: ------------ -This is version 1.6.3 of pgsql_perl5 (previously called pg95perl5). +This is version 1.7.0 of pgsql_perl5 (previously called pg95perl5). Pgsql_perl5 is an interface between Larry Wall's language perl version 5 and the database PostgreSQL (previously Postgres95). This has been done by using @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ REQUIREMENTS: ------------- - build, test and install Perl 5 (at least 5.002) - - build, test and install PostgreSQL (at least 6.2) + - build, test and install PostgreSQL (at least 6.3) PLATFORMS: @@ -85,6 +85,9 @@ Run 'make test'. Note, that the user running this script must have been created with the access rights to create databases *AND* users ! Do not run this script as root ! +If testing fails with the message 'login failed', please check if access +to the database template1 as well as pgperltest is not protected via pg_hba.conf. + If you are using the shared library libpq.so check if your dynamic loader finds libpq.so. With Linux the command /sbin/ldconfig -v should tell you, where it finds libpq.so. If ldconfig does not find libpq.so, either add an @@ -98,6 +101,22 @@ If you have compile errors like "XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK undeclared", make a 'find .../lib/perl5 -name XSUB.h -print' If this file is not present, you need to recompile and reinstall perl. +Also RedHat 5.0 seems to have an incomplete perl-installation: if +you get error message during the installation complaining about a +missing perllocal.pod, you need to recompile and reinstall perl. + +SGI users: if you get segmentation faults make sure, you use the malloc which + comes with perl when compiling perl (the default is not to). + "David R. Noble" <drnoble@engsci.sandia.gov> + +HP users: if you get error messages like: + can't open shared library: .../lib/libpq.sl + No such file or directory + when running the test script, try to replace the + 'shared' option in the LDDFLAGS with 'archive'. + Dan Lauterbach <danla@dimensional.com> + + DOCUMENTATION: -------------- @@ -108,6 +127,6 @@ installation to read the documentation. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de> September 25, 1997 + Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de> February 20, 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |