Re: Postgres failed to compile on debian x86

[Seneca Cunningham <tentra(at)gmail(dot)com>]

On 05-Sep-2006, at 10:32 :57, Josh Fremer wrote:

> I can't believe I forgot to mention this before, but the version of  
> postgresql I'm trying to install is 8.1.4.

That was my guess, given the source build for stable and the line  
numbers in your config.log.

> On Sep 5, 2006, at 12:24 AM, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
>
> > If you have a deb-src entry for main in your sources.list, you can  
> > use "apt-get build-dep" followed by a Debian postgres package name  
> > to find what development packages Debian considers to be  
> > required.  I can't remember the full package list off hand, but  
> > expect there to be packages like libc6-dev, libreadline5-dev, cpp,  
> > perl-dev, libssl-dev, zlib-dev.
>
> Thanks for this excellent tip; I had no idea the "build-dep"  
> functionality even existed.  I tried doing an "apt-get build-dep"  
> on the latest version of postgresql in stable (7.4 I believe) which  
> installed a whole bunch of stuff which probably helped, but didn't  
> solve the problem
>
> I then opted to add the testing branch to my sources list and do an  
> "apt-get build-dep postgresql-8.1" since this is the same major  
> version of postgresql I'm trying to build.  This yields the same  
> error.
[...snip config.log segment...]

Now that I'm connected to a Linux system, I've tried your original  
configure line of:

  ./configure --with-perl --with-openssl \
    --with-includes=/usr/include/linux/:/usr/include \
    --with-libraries=/usr/lib/

and reproduced your results.  Change that to:

  ./configure --with-perl --with-openssl \
    --with-includes=/usr/include --with-libraries=/usr/lib

and it should work.  Incidentally, the --with-includes and
--with-libraries aren't necessary at this point as /usr/include and / 
usr/lib are in the default search path of gcc, ld, and cpp.

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Seneca Cunningham
tentra(at)gmail(dot)com