Repository Setup
If you blindly type "yum install postgresql-devel", you may have trouble getting everything installed properly.
Use the postgresql repositories instead of the Centos repsositories.
Here is how you do that.
Installation
We want to install postgresql 8.3.7 for CentOS release 5.5, 64 bit (x86_64).
This is a good how to:
todo - add Summco directions here
Errors
Errors we've seen
error:
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
solution:
yum install gcc-c++
error:
configure: error: readline library not found
solution:
yum install readline-devel.x86_64
error:
configure: error: zlib library not found
solution:
yum install zlib.x86_64 zlib-devel.x86_64
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