"Tena Sakai" <tsakai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > And a couple of steps later when I run > "gmake install" will it generate a directory > /usr/local/pgsql-8.3.0 on its own? Or must I > do something like: > gmake install --build-new-dir pgsql-8.3.0 There is no "--build-new-dir" switch. It will make the directory if it can, ie, if you run it as a user with sufficient permissions on the parent directory. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster