[Csync2] Installing csync2 on Centos6 with PostgreSQL 9.1 as datastore

[Kwasi Gyasi - Agyei]

# = command line argument

Get latest copy from Git if you like clone tag

# git clone git://git.linbit.com/csync2.git csync2

Make sure you have the following dependencies flex, librsync,
librsync-devel, byacc, postgresql91-devel, postgresql91-libs (PostgreSQL
installation and configuration not in scope)

# yum install flex librsync librsync-devel byacc postgresql91-devel
postgresql91-libs

Change directory to location where you cloned csync to

# cd csync2
# ./autogen.sh

The above will generate configure file e.t.c.

When you install postgres 9.1 from EPEL(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL)
repository the default location for include and libs is in
/usr/pgsql-9.1/(lib/includes) respectively, this caused problems when I
tried to configure csync2 enabling postgres as backend. When I read through
configure file I noticed that csync was looking for libpd* in
postgresql/libpq*. Not sure if an environmental variable can be configured
to change this behavior, I didn't notice such. So what I did was to amend
the line for "ac_header in postgresql/libpq-fe.h" to "for ac_header in
/usr/pgsql-9.1/include/libpq-fe.h" also make will fail indicating that path
postgresql/libpq-fe.h can't be found for that I just created a symbolic
link in csync2 source folder as follows:

# ln -s /usr/pgsql-9.1/include/ postgresql

After all the above changes, (the probably is an easier way) I executed the
following commands

# ./configure --enable-postgres
# make
# make install

csync2 is installed now, refer to documentation for configuration.
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