[R-sig-DB] RdbiPgSQL, OS X, and the location of libpq.5.dylib

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is really a PostgreSQL-on-MacOS question.  On a modern Unix-alike you 
tell ld.so about such paths via entries in /etc/ld.so.conf.d, but then on 
all my systems libpq has been installed in standard places.

I think you need to ask on a MacOS list (e.g. r-sig-mac) if no MacOS guru 
answers here.

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Jason Foster wrote:

> I'm using a prebuilt Postgres binary which puts things in ...
>
> /Library/PostgreSQL8/lib/libpq.5.0.dylib
> /Library/PostgreSQL8/lib/libpq.5.1.dylib
> /Library/PostgreSQL8/lib/libpq.5.dylib
> /Library/PostgreSQL8/lib/libpq.a
> /Library/PostgreSQL8/lib/libpq.dylib
>
> ... so when I execute ...
>
> library(RdbiPgSQL)
>
> ... I get back some quite sensible errors:
>
> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
> unable to load shared library 
> '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/RdbiPgSQL/libs/i386/RdbiPgSQL.so':
> dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/RdbiPgSQL/libs/i386/RdbiPgSQL.so, 
> 6): Library not loaded: /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.5.dylib
> Referenced from: 
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/RdbiPgSQL/libs/i386/RdbiPgSQL.so
> Reason: image not found
> Error: package/namespace load failed for 'RdbiPgSQL'
>
> I can add some soft links to my system, but I was wondering if there was a 
> better way to get things working?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jason
>
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