It was unhappy that BDR binaries were not on the path, and failed at
section 2.4.
Then went back and tried installing the BDR patch (section 2.1) which
finished with this unhappy message:
configure: error: bdr is not compatible with postgres 9.5
I was just curious if others have had success with this.
Although many of the components of BDR are in 9.5, BDR itself is still currently a fork. It can be downloaded from 2ndQuadrant. In theory it will be available in 9.6.
BDR 9.4 is currently at v0.9.3. There isn't a BDR 9.5, since we concentrated on pglogical.
pglogical works with 9.4 and 9.5 and is currently at v1.0
Future detailed planning for BDR and pglogical is happening now; there definitely will be future versions with increasing PostgreSQL compatibility.