[Evergreen-general] libdbi PostgreSQL driver not found in shared library path

[Miller, Jeremy]

>- I don't have much knowledge about "make" and Makefile, but my opinion is that it is not the appropriate tool for installing dependencies. You can use DEB packages instead, which might be more suitable. Or just bash scripting, or listing the packages that need to be installed on the installation page.

FWIW, everything that can be installed by standard package management, is already being installed that way.  What you suggest is effectively what that particular make command is doing, but with minimized typing/copy/pasting.

  make -f Open-ILS/src/extras/Makefile.install <osname>

If you cat that Makefile.install file and give it a read (easier to follow than many bash scripts), it calls multiple other files depending on what osname you give it.  Look at the files getting called for a given osname, and you'll find the list of DEB or RPM packages getting installed (along with the exact apt or yum command used to do it), among other things.  (Repos to add if missing, CPAN modules to install, packages needing removed in favor of a compiled from source version, apache modules to enable, and so on.)

I've found reading through them a pretty good way to see in complete detail what is going on with that step.  Even with zero prior experience with it, I once found it quite easy to "add support" myself for a newly released os version, just to see if it would install and work there without any trouble.  (It did!)  One could absolutely use them as a guide to do all of it by hand, if desired.

Hope that might be helpful for you, or for anyone else curious about how that part works. :)

Cheers
-Jeremiah

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