Brad Nicholson <bnichols at ca.afilias.info> writes:
> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 07:39 -0700, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
>> On Wednesday 26 September 2007 07:35:15 Brad Nicholson wrote:
>> > I've just built PG 8.1.10 on AIX 5.3, and encountered the following
>> > error when trying to configure slony.
>> >
>> > pg_config says pg_includeserverdir
>> > is
>> > /opt/dbs/pgsql8110-slony115-AIX5300-05-00-64bit-2007-09-26/include/server/
>> > checking for correct version of PostgreSQL... 8.1
>> > checking PostgreSQL for enable-thread-safety as required on
>> > aix5.3.0.0... yes
>> > checking for PQunescapeBytea in -lpq... no
>> > configure: error: Your version of libpq doesn't have PQunescapeBytea
>> >      this means that your version of PostgreSQL is lower than 7.3
>> >      and thus not supported by Slony-I.
>> 
>> Wild guess, but do you have more than one libpq on the system?
>
> Yes, but nothing that old, and with this being the configure for slony,
> it really shouldn't be finding anything else
>
> export PREFIX=/opt/dbs/pgsql8110-slony115-AIX5300-05-00-64bit-2007-09-26
> LDFLAGS="-Wl,-bbigtoc" CC="gcc -maix64" ./configure \
>        --prefix=$PREFIX \
>        --bindir=$PREFIX/bin \
>        --datadir=$PREFIX/share \
>        --libdir=$PREFIX/lib \
>        --with-pgconfigdir=$PREFIX/bin \
>        --with-pgbindir=$PREFIX/bin \
>        --with-pgincludedir=$PREFIX/include \
>        --with-pglibdir=$PREFIX/lib \
>        --with-pgsharedir=$PREFIX/share

Suggestion:
  Remove all of those -- options except for "--with-pgconfigdir=$PREFIX/bin"

There was a *lot* of cleanup done in version 1.2 so that you should
only need to specify the other values individually if:

 a) You have some really peculiar setup where they vary from a
    'standard' PostgreSQL directory layout, and

 b) Also, simultaneously, you are building against a PostgreSQL build
    that was hacked around so that its "pg_config" doesn't know the
    proper shape of that directory layout.

I *know* that neither a) nor b) is the case, for your installs, so I'm
quite confident you have no need to set other than
--with-pgconfigdir...
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