[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.12.1 on Ubuntu Xenial with Postgres 9.5/9.4

[Ben Shum]

Hi Garry,

Hmm, sounds like you've got a minor mystery there.  That sort of
library error sounds like a bad path or missing library to me.

Some background questions if I might start with:

Can you confirm which Linux distribution you are using?  The title of
your email says Ubuntu Xenial, but to confirm you're using the 64-bit
server edition for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial?

I build with the stock Makefile.install dependencies which includes
client stuff for PostgreSQL 9.5 by default for xenial, so there
shouldn't be a need to downgrade that to 9.4 despite what the README
suggests as the minimum.

I might also confirm that you are going through the OpenSRF 2.5.0
installation first, having a confirmed working OpenSRF install, and
then proceeding with the Evergreen installation (running pre-reqs
there, etc. too).  Some steps look similar between Evergreen and
OpenSRF and people think they already did it and skip, but they are
two separate install procedures and steps repeat occasionally.

Will ponder further on the subject.

-- Ben

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Garry Dunn <garry at trellisconsulting.ca> wrote:
> To all,
>
> I'm working through the installation of a fresh EG 2.12.1/OpenSRF 2.5.0
> setup but I'm having problems at the 'make' stage of EG 2.12.1.  I keep
> getting a missing library error:  cannot find -ldbdpgsql.  Everything up to
> there seems to run fine (a few warnings here and there, but they all appear
> to be minor in nature: variables set but not used, pointers set to -1).
>
> I've run through the process a couple of times now and I always get stuck at
> the same spot.  On my first attempt, I used the built-in Ubuntu 9.5 Postgres
> server (even though the EG developers recommend 9.4). Thinking that might be
> the problem, I started over again and installed Postgres 9.4, only to arrive
> at the same error.
>
> Then I thought that a dependency wasn't quite right in the make file, I
> tried manually running:
>
>         apt-get install lib-dbdpgsql
>
> and I'm told it's already installed and the newest version available, so it
> seems I've got the library on the system.  I'm guessing the system just
> isn't referencing it in the correct location.
>
> Can anyone provide any input on where I might be going wrong and how I can
> fix it?
>
> Thanks in advance!



-- 
Benjamin Shum
Evergreener