Building Slony
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Slony needs to be built against the version of postgresql that is in use, therefore there may not be rpms available.
To build slony on SL3
Download the slony tarball from the Slony website
Install the following rpms if not already installed:
rpm-build postgresql-devel flex bison openssl-devel autoconf gcc perl-DBI
(Unfortunately the version of autoconf supplied with SL3 seems to be too old to build slony successfully, however autoconf 2.59 works.)
As the postgres user:
Expand the tarball
Change into the newly created directory
Run ./configure
Edit the Makefile.global and change the line :
override CPPFLAGS := -I${pgincludedir} -I${pgincludeserverdir} $(CPPFLAGS)
to
override CPPFLAGS := -I${pgincludedir} -I${pgincludeserverdir} -I/usr/kerberos/include $(CPPFLAGS)
Run make
As root:
Change into the directory Run make rpm
If all has completed successfully then an rpm will exist under /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 with a name like : postgresql-slony1-engine-1.1.5_RC3-1_PG8.1.0.i386.rpm
To build slony on SL4:
This is identical to above except that it is not necessary to edit Makefile.global
