Re: 8.2 Admin Pack broken?

"Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)" <andy.shellam-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:45:51 +0000

Tom Lane wrote:

  "Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)" <andy.shellam-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    FYI: Reports on Google are wrong - they say that you need to use "gmake" 
to build the PostgreSQL server source.  You don't.

I can assure you that you need GNU make to build any part of Postgres.
Perhaps what you're dealing with there is that "/usr/bin/make" is some
particularly ancient release of GNU make that has most but not quite all
of the features we depend on?  "make -v" might prove informative.

Not particularly!! Don't know what it is but it doesn't _appear_ to be
GNU.  According to "man make" it is a "FreeBSD General Command."

I can tell you that "./configure && make && make
install" works and builds a working Postgres server just fine, it's
just the contribs it doesn't build.

[root@byron ~]# make -v

make: no target to make.

[root@byron ~]# /usr/bin/make -v

make: no target to make.

[root@byron ~]# /usr/local/bin/make -v

GNU Make 3.81

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.

There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A

PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i386-unknown-freebsd6.1

[root@byron ~]#

Confusion reigns.