How to make Fedora4 build threadsafe for Postgresql?

[Matt England]

At 3/1/2006 12:40 AM, Paul Howarth wrote:
>On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 00:05 -0600, Matt England wrote:
> > I received the following problems while trying to build 
> postgresql-8.1.3 on
> > FedoraCore4.  Can anyone provide any feedback or suggestions for help?
>
>The rawhide postgres 8.1.3 package builds thread-safe; why not take the
>SRPM and try rebuilding it on FC4?

I take it "rawhide" is he codename for FC4?  (I'm ignorant; I'm dealing 
with porting my software to a myriad of OSes across the board.)  Is this an 
appropriate reference:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/s390/repodata/repoview/postgresql-contrib-0-8.1.3-1.html

?

And can I confirm via the above docs somewhere that it's built with the 
'./configure --enable-thread-safety' flavor?

>If you're dead set on building it yourself, you might want to look at
>the spec file and see how RedHat do it:
>
>http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/postgresql/postgresql.spec?view=markup

Ok, thanks Paul for these great references.  I don't yet know redhat/fedora 
spec files/language, but I may learn soon enough if need be.  (I suspect 
this is the stuff needed to write things like .rpm packages, but I'm not sure.)

My main reason for building from source: if my group finds an integration 
problem (or just general bug) when we integrate/embed with postgres, we 
like to be able to address the bug in source and rebuild the integratable 
portion/library/whatever and deliver it to our customers quickly...and we 
don't want to have to wait around when/if said crisis hits and try to poke 
around and figure out how to get the source to build when we are rushing to 
deliver said fix/patch (even if it's a fix on Postgres' behalf which we 
would also push back to Postgres' site).

-Matt