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

[Dashamir Hoxha]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 3:57 AM Miller, Jeremy via Evergreen-general <
evergreen-general at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> >- 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.)
>

You may be right. I am familiar with Bash scripting and not familiar with
make and Makefile, so probably I am biased.

However, I'd prefer to be able to install an application without having to
go down and look at the details (at the source code, etc.), simply because
I don't have enough time to do this for all the applications that I install.

I can only notice that with all the great job that Makefile.install files
are doing, the installation page is still very long, with lots of
instructions, and the installation is still difficult (more difficult than
most applications that I have tried, in my opinion).

So, maybe we can agree that there is still some work that needs to be done,
one way or another, to improve the installation, to make it easier and more
reliable. Most of the people here have already installed it (I guess), so
improving the installation is not their priority or concern, but it might
be important for newcomers like me.

Dashamir


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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