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#-------------------------------------------------------
#
-# $Id: README,v 1.3 1997/09/17 20:46:26 mergl Exp $
+# $Id: README,v 1.4 1997/09/25 21:14:46 mergl Exp $
#
# Copyright (c) 1997 Edmund Mergl
#
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
DESCRIPTION:
------------
-This is version 1.6.2 of pgsql_perl5 (previously called pg95perl5).
+This is version 1.6.3 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
@@ -85,14 +85,17 @@ 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 you are using the shared library libpq.so, make sure, your dynamic loader
-is able to find libpq.so. With Linux the command /sbin/ldconfig -v should tell
-you, where it finds libpq.so. If not, you need to add an appropriate entry to
-/etc/ld.so.conf or to the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
+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
+appropriate entry to /etc/ld.so.conf and re-run ldconfig or add the path to
+the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
+A typical error message resulting from not finding libpq.so is:
+ Can't load './blib/arch/auto/Pg/Pg.so' for module Pg: File not found at
Some linux distributions have an incomplete perl installation.
If you have compile errors like "XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK undeclared", make a
- 'find /usr/lib/perl5 -name XSUB.h -print'
+ 'find .../lib/perl5 -name XSUB.h -print'
If this file is not present, you need to recompile and reinstall perl.
@@ -105,6 +108,6 @@ installation to read the documentation.
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- Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de> September 20, 1997
+ Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de> September 25, 1997
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