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Thanks for the tips. It kind of worked. I got passed that point, but then got to another set of errors.

I'm going to change my approach. I'm trying to locate some older Linux ISOs that I can install in a vmware virtual environment and try to build in there. Since all I want is to dump my data, I don't really have that much of a worry about long-term performance within a virtualized system.

We'll see how it goes. So far finding older ISOs has been more difficult than I expected. It appears no one is seriously keeping an archive of old Linux distros. This is too bad, because it can be non- trivial to get older versions of software working on newer distros, and that means data gathering dust in offline backups might not be recoverable, especially if it is just data backups and not entire systems (like I happen to be dealing with).

If this avenue fails, I'll post back with actual error messages. I do appreciate your assistance.

Thanks,
Greg


On Jul 13, 2005, at 7:58 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:29:41PM -0700, Gregory Youngblood wrote:


It gets through most of the make process, but then at the point where
it starts creating files like GNUmakefile, it returns:
sed: file conftest.sl line 35: unterminated `s' command


The problem is that GCC now gives a multiline string when given
--version. I think the easiest way out is to change the configure file,
where it says

CC_VERSION=`${CC} --version`

to something like

CC_VERSION=`${CC} --version | head -1`

(Or change configure.in and rerun autoconf)


Second problem, this time is for 7.1.

7.1 is configured with:
./configure --prefix=/export/storage/PostgreSQL/7.1 --pgport=5434

It doesn't get as far as 7.0, but it does get to:
Checking types of arguments for accept() . . .


I think the easiest would be to take the
config/ac_func_accept_argtypes.m4 file from a newer release, rerun
autoconf, and rerun configure.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>)
"In fact, the basic problem with Perl 5's subroutines is that they're not crufty enough, so the cruft leaks out into user-defined code instead, by
the Conservation of Cruft Principle."  (Larry Wall, Apocalypse 6)

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