Emi Lu wrote: > Hello, > > Tried to install 8.2, configuration passed, but when running "gmake", > got the following error, any clues? Please provide more details -- what operating system is this? > Step1 > ======== > ./configure --prefix=/local/postgresql --datadir=/postgreSQL_data > --without-docdir --without-readline --disable-spinlocks --without-zlib Please note that --datadir does not do what you seem to think. Remove it, because it's going to cause other problems further on. Also, if you need --disable-spinlocks, your installation is not going to perform very well; did you try without that? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support