Re: postgres on OS X

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

On 11 April 2011 17:24, Jonathan Cran <jcran () metasploit com> wrote:
> On 04/11/2011 05:52 AM, Robin Wood wrote:
>
> After a struggle I've got Postgres 9.1 installed in OS X via ports and
> now I'm trying to get the pg Ruby gem installed but when I do it
> complains about libpq-fe.h being missing.
>
> That should come from libpq but the only ports package I can find is
> libpqxx which wants to start installing Postgresql 8.4.
>
> Is it possible to get this up and running from ports or should I give
> up and go to a source install?
>
>
> I've had success installing from source. Also, make sure that the headers
> are in your path (may be the problem with the ports install).
>
> export PATH=/opt/local/lib/postgresqlXX/bin/:$PATH
> gem install pg

Ye, sorry forgot to reply, Carlos pointed out the same solution and I
got it working in the end.

Robin


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