[DB-SIG] Help installing PyGreSQL.

D'Arcy J.M. Cain db-sig@python.org
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 13:07:54 -0500 (EST)


Thus spake Tom Bryan
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Wayne wrote:
> 
> > Hello, I'm running postgreSQL 6.4.2 and would like to install
> > PyGresSQL. In the install instruction it refers to a file name
> > "Makefile.pre.in boot" I don't have this file file on my system. There
> > is also a refers to a directory called "??/Modules" . I don't have a
> > Modules directory. There is a refers to the Setup files, is this the
> > directory where make is for postgreSQL. The distro I have is Redhat
> > 6.0.

Ah, that's the info missing from your email to me that I asked for.  :-)
(you == wayne)

> I haven't installed PyGresSQL, but what you're describing sounds like the
> Python source tree.  If you build Python from source, the Modules
> subdirectory of the source code directories contains a Setup file, where

That's right.  The README is for building from full source.

> By the way, RedHat comes with Python-1.5.1.  The current version is
> Python-1.5.2.  You might want to grab the latest RPMs from Olivier
> Andrich's page on the Starship http://starship.python.net

And the latest (ftp://ftp.druid.net/pub/distrib/PyGreSQL-beta.tgz) PyGreSQL
beta has a config file for building RPMs if someone on Linux wants to
build it and make it available.  I run NetBSD so I can't do it here.  I
would be willing to make it available on the PyGreSQL site though, either
as a file or a link to the file on your system.

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