Elein,

Awesome, thanks. I ended up trying 1.2 rc3 on a whim, with what I
believe is the same configuration, and it works just fine. There isn't
the same check in configure. The locations I used were those found in
the ebuild file:
--with-pgincludedir=/usr/include/postgresql/pgsql
--with-pgincludeserverdir=/usr/include/postgresql/server

I include all this primarily for posterity/the benefit of googlers..

It's possible that these problems arose because of a fix I had to do
to make php5 build with postgres support, in the form of two symlinks:
/usr/include/postgresql/pgsql/pg_config.h --> ../pg_config.h
/usr/include/postgresql/pgsql/server --> ../server

Anyway, it's working now. I'll play with it some more over the next
few days and let all know if I learn anything more.

Thanks,
Peter
On 9/13/06, elein <elein at varlena.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 03:43:15PM -0700, Peter Abrahamsen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've searched for this error and haven't come up with anything.
> >
> > I'm turnning postgresql 7.4.13 on Gentoo, with slony1 1.1.5 installed
> > from portage.
> >
> > Everything seems fine until I go to run
> > # slonik < init_cluster.slnk
> > as per the instructions at:
> > http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/113.php
> >
> > I get the error:
> > PGRES_FATAL_ERROR load '$libdir/xxid';  - ERROR:  could not load
> > library "/usr/lib64/posgresql/xxid.so": /usr/lib64/postgresql/xxid.so:
> > undefined symbol: GetTopTransactionId
>
> This means that while installing that the xxid.so file did not get
> put into the right directory, $PGLIB.  If your *postgres* prefix is /usr/local/pgsql
> then PGLIB is /usr/local/pgsql/lib.   If you have to fish around,
> it is the same directory that plpgsql.so lives.  Move or link
> the file there.
>
> Note that after this error you will also receive the same error for
> slony_funcs.so.  Then later on Perl will not find slon-tools.pm.
> These also need to go into the PGLIB directory.
>
> The configuration options are confusing and depend on the type of
> installation of postgresql that you have.  Especially when that installation
> is spread around /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc.
>
> --elein
> elein at varlena.com
>
>
> >
> > slony1 configure shows:
> > checking whether GetTopTransactionId is declared... no
> >
> > Postgresql was compiled with libg++, nls, pam, perl, pg-hier,
> > readline, ssl, xml, threads, and zlib support.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance for any insight,
> >
> > Peter
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