Help compiling source code
Ross Gohlke
developer at grinz.com
Tue May 13 16:25:35 UTC 2008
> Give a try with
> % ./configure --help
>
> It should print the configuration available.
>
> Hope this helps.
A ha! That definitely helps, thanks. I will have to play with it a bit,
but that is the answer I was looking for.
Ross Gohlke
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Ross Gohlke <developer at grinz.com>
wrote:
>> I am a longtime FreeBSD user accustomed to ports. I have never been
>> comfortable compiling source code except under the most vanilla of
circumstances (ie, when nothing goes wrong).
>> QUESTION: How can I change pam-pgsql's configure script to find
pgsql's
>> libraries?
>> The machine in question is a Powerbook G4 (PowerPC) running Mac OS
>> 10.4.11.
>> I am using MacPorts (equivalent of ports). One small piece of software
(available in FreeBSD ports) is a lynchpin of my entire operation -
pam-pgsql.
>> Pam-pgsql gives me virtual email users which are easily shared between
Postfix and Cyrus IMAP while letting me use my SQL backend of
>> preference -
>> PostgreSQL.
>> There is no macport available for pam-pgsql, so I must compile the
>> source
>> myself. It is not working. My hunch is that the fix is simple -
>> something
>> with paths, because macports installs PostgreSQL at weird paths and
the
>> pam-pgsql configure script expects a standard location.
>> ## /opt/local/src/pam-pgsql/configure.in
>> dnl Configure template for pam_pgsql
>> AC_INIT(pam_get_pass.c)
>> AC_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
>> dnl Checks for libraries.
>> AC_CHECK_LIB(pam, pam_get_user)
>> dnl Checks for header files.
>> AC_CANONICAL_HOST
>> AC_HEADER_STDC
>> AC_CHECK_HEADERS(syslog.h)
>> AC_CHECK_HEADERS(netdb.h)
>> AC_MSG_CHECKING(for PostgreSQL headers)
>> for d in /usr /usr/local /usr/local/pgsql; do
>> test -f $d/include/libpq-fe.h && {
>> AC_SUBST(PGSQL_INC)
>> PGSQL_INC="-I$d/include"
>> PG_DIR="$d"
>> AC_MSG_RESULT($d/include)
>> }
>> test -f $d/include/postgresql/libpq-fe.h && {
>> AC_SUBST(PGSQL_INC)
>> PGSQL_INC="-I$d/include/postgresql"
>> PG_DIR="$d"
>> AC_MSG_RESULT($d/include/postgresql)
>> }
>> test -f $d/include/postgresql/8.0/libpq-fe.h && {
>> AC_SUBST(PGSQL_INC)
>> PGSQL_INC="-I$d/include/postgresql/8.0"
>> PG_DIR="$d"
>> AC_MSG_RESULT($d/include/postgresql/8.0)
>> }
>> test -f $d/include/pgsql/libpq-fe.h && {
>> AC_SUBST(PGSQL_INC)
>> PGSQL_INC="-I$d/include/pgsql"
>> PG_DIR="$d"
>> AC_MSG_RESULT($d/include/pgsql)
>> }
>> done
>> old_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
>> LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$PG_DIR/lib"
>> AC_CHECK_LIB(pq, PQexecParams,
>> [AC_SUBST(PGSQL_LIB)
>> PGSQL_LIB="-L$PG_DIR/lib"],
>> [AC_MSG_ERROR(could not determine PostgreSQL library location)])
>> LDFLAGS="$old_LDFLAGS"
>> ......
>> ## /opt/local/include/postgresql83/
>> -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 600 May 12 12:25 ecpg_config.h
>> -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 2776 May 12 12:25 ecpg_informix.h
-rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 2600 May 12 12:25 ecpgerrno.h
>> -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 2440 May 12 12:25 ecpglib.h
>> -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 2560 May 12 12:25 ecpgtype.h
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 May 12 12:26 informix
>> drwxr-xr-x 8 root admin 272 May 12 12:26 internal
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 May 12 12:26 libpq
>> -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 18410 May 12 12:25 libpq-fe.h
>> -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 21700 May 12 12:25 pg_config.h
>> -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 8954 May 12 12:25 pg_config_manual.h
-rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 217 May 12 12:25 pg_config_os.h
-rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 814 May 12 12:25 pgtypes_date.h
-rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 588 May 12 12:25 pgtypes_error.h
-rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 1485 May 12 12:25 pgtypes_interval.h
-rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 2306 May 12 12:25 pgtypes_numeric.h
-rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 1057 May 12 12:25 pgtypes_timestamp.h
-rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 1837 May 12 12:25 postgres_ext.h
drwxr-xr-x 40 root admin 1360 May 12 12:26 server
>> -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 834 May 12 12:25 sql3types.h
>> -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 1267 May 12 12:25 sqlca.h
>> ## /opt/local/lib/postgresql83/
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 106392 May 12 12:25 adminpack.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 100444 May 12 12:25 ascii_and_mic.so
drwxr-xr-x 25 root admin 850 May 12 12:26 bin
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 106700 May 12 12:25 cyrillic_and_mic.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 130720 May 12 12:25 dblink.so
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 425208 May 12 12:25 dict_snowball.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 100448 May 12 12:25 euc_cn_and_mic.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 100540 May 12 12:25
>> euc_jis_2004_and_shift_jis_2004.so
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 104952 May 12 12:25 euc_jp_and_sjis.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 100476 May 12 12:25 euc_kr_and_mic.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 105384 May 12 12:25 euc_tw_and_big5.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 118224 May 12 12:25 fuzzystrmatch.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 101164 May 12 12:25
latin2_and_win1250.so
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 100808 May 12 12:25 latin_and_mic.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 69544 May 12 12:25 libecpg.6.0.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 17 May 12 12:26 libecpg.6.dylib ->
libecpg.6.0.dylib
>> -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 110192 May 12 12:25 libecpg.a
>> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 17 May 12 12:26 libecpg.dylib ->
libecpg.6.0.dylib
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 21380 May 12 12:25
>> libecpg_compat.3.0.dylib
>> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 24 May 12 12:26
>> libecpg_compat.3.dylib
>> -> libecpg_compat.3.0.dylib
>> -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 16832 May 12 12:25 libecpg_compat.a
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 24 May 12 12:26 libecpg_compat.dylib
>> ->
>> libecpg_compat.3.0.dylib
>> -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 44848 May 12 12:25 libpgport.a
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 69040 May 12 12:25 libpgtypes.3.0.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 20 May 12 12:26 libpgtypes.3.dylib
->
>> libpgtypes.3.0.dylib
>> -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 90096 May 12 12:25 libpgtypes.a
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 20 May 12 12:26 libpgtypes.dylib ->
libpgtypes.3.0.dylib
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 131804 May 12 12:25 libpq.5.1.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 15 May 12 12:26 libpq.5.dylib ->
libpq.5.1.dylib
>> -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 196192 May 12 12:25 libpq.a
>> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 15 May 12 12:26 libpq.dylib ->
libpq.5.1.dylib
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 100584 May 12 12:25 lo.so
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 100704 May 12 12:25 pg_buffercache.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 110600 May 12 12:25 pg_trgm.so
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 116700 May 12 12:25 pgxml.so
>> drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 May 12 12:26 pgxs
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 220872 May 12 12:25 plpgsql.so
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 114112 May 12 12:25 tsearch2.so
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 100448 May 12 12:25 utf8_and_ascii.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 317580 May 12 12:25 utf8_and_big5.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 100496 May 12 12:25 utf8_and_cyrillic.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 219288 May 12 12:25 utf8_and_euc_cn.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 280844 May 12 12:25
>> utf8_and_euc_jis_2004.so
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 309400 May 12 12:25 utf8_and_euc_jp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 231576 May 12 12:25 utf8_and_euc_kr.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 428184 May 12 12:25 utf8_and_euc_tw.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 1112220 May 12 12:25 utf8_and_gb18030.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 448644 May 12 12:25 utf8_and_gbk.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 126164 May 12 12:25 utf8_and_iso8859.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 100520 May 12 12:25
utf8_and_iso8859_1.so
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 370832 May 12 12:25 utf8_and_johab.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 280860 May 12 12:25
>> utf8_and_shift_jis_2004.so
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 219276 May 12 12:25 utf8_and_sjis.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 370820 May 12 12:25 utf8_and_uhc.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 121848 May 12 12:25 utf8_and_win.so
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 101860 May 12 12:25 uuid-ossp.so %
/opt/local/src/pam-pgsql/configure
>> checking for gcc... gcc
>> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
>> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
>> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>> checking for suffix of executables...
>> checking for suffix of object files... o
>> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
>> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
>> checking for pam_get_user in -lpam... yes
>> checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0
>> checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0
>> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
>> checking for egrep... grep -E
>> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
>> checking for sys/types.h... yes
>> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
>> checking for stdlib.h... yes
>> checking for string.h... yes
>> checking for memory.h... yes
>> checking for strings.h... yes
>> checking for inttypes.h... yes
>> checking for stdint.h... yes
>> checking for unistd.h... yes
>> checking syslog.h usability... yes
>> checking syslog.h presence... yes
>> checking for syslog.h... yes
>> checking netdb.h usability... yes
>> checking netdb.h presence... yes
>> checking for netdb.h... yes
>> checking for PostgreSQL headers... checking for PQexecParams in
-lpq...
>> no
>> configure: error: could not determine PostgreSQL library location I
already tried changing /usr to /opt in configure.in, that didn't
>> work.
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Give a try with
> % ./configure --help
>
> It should print the configuration available.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>> Ross Gohlke
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>
> Regards.
>
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