It's very likely that any system with vendor-supplied PostgreSQL packages also provides packages for pgpool. These versions are likely to install to expected directories, including initialization scripts and basic working configuration files. This is definitely not the case with the source distribution.
If, for any reason, we would rather install the source package, we have a lot of work ahead. Assuming that we downloaded a version from the pgpool project page, we start the process by extracting the source from the archive, and then enter the resulting directory to perform the necessary installation steps.
The first of these steps is to compile the source into binaries and libraries. The pgpool configure script is fairly standard, ...
