Creating a PL/Perl RPM linked against a custom Perl build (updated)
By Jon Jensen
November 29, 2008
I recently needed to refer to a post I made on March 7, 2007, showing how to build a PL/Perl RPM linked against a custom Perl build. A few things have changed since that time, so I’ve reworked it here, updated for local Perl 5.10.0 built into RPMs:
We sometimes have to install a custom Perl build without thread support, and to have some specific newer and/or older versions of CPAN modules, and we don’t want to affect the standard distribution Perl that lives in /usr/bin/perl and /usr/lib/perl5. We use standard PGDG RPMs to install PostgreSQL. We also use PL/Perl, and want PL/Perl to link against our custom Perl build in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib/perl5.
It’s easy to achieve this with a small patch to the source RPM spec file:
--- postgresql-8.3.spec 2008-10-31 17:34:34.000000000 +0000
+++ postgresql-8.3.custom.spec 2008-11-30 02:10:09.000000000 +0000
@@ -315,6 +315,7 @@
CFLAGS=`echo $CFLAGS|xargs -n 1|grep -v ffast-math|xargs -n 100`
export LIBNAME=%{_lib}
+export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
%configure --disable-rpath \
%if %beta
--enable-debug \
@@ -322,6 +323,7 @@
%endif
%if %plperl
--with-perl \
+ --with-libraries=/usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux/CORE/libperl.so \
%endif
%if %plpython
--with-python \
Since we build RPMs of our local Perl, we want this PL/Perl RPM to depend on them, so we make this additional patch before building:
--- postgresql-8.3.spec 2008-10-31 17:34:34.000000000 +0000
+++ postgresql-8.3.custom.spec 2008-11-30 02:10:09.000000000 +0000
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
Patch6: postgresql-perl-rpath.patch
Patch8: postgresql-prefer-ncurses.patch
-Buildrequires: perl glibc-devel bison flex
+Buildrequires: local-perl = 4:5.10.0, glibc-devel, bison, flex
Requires: /sbin/ldconfig initscripts
%if %plpython
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
%package plperl
Summary: The Perl procedural language for PostgreSQL
Group: Applications/Databases
-Requires: postgresql-server = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires: postgresql-server = %{version}-%{release}, local-perl = 4:5.10.0
%ifarch ppc ppc64
BuildRequires: perl-devel
%endif
After applying the patch(es) (adjusted for your own custom Perl build, of course), rebuild the RPM, and install the postgresql-plperl (8.2 or newer) or postgresql-pl (8.1 and earlier) RPM. With a service postgresql restart, you’re ready to go.
For pre-built PostgreSQL 8.3 RPMs that link against unthreaded local Perl 5.10.0, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x86_64, see the packages.endpointdev.com Yum repositories.
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