Eric wrote: > I am getting truly desperate! I am trying to build any version of > Postgres on Windows from source. First experience with Postgres > source. I have struggled for days trying to solve a problem. Would be > willing to pay for the solution!!! > > The following error occurred when issuing a vanilla initdb command on > my Windows system. > > FATAL: could not select a suitable default timezone > DETAIL: It appears that your GMT time zone uses leap seconds. > PostgreSQL does not support leap seconds. > > I built this from 8.1.8 source under msys/mingw. Also tried 8.2.2. > Everything builds fine but initdb always reports the above error and > quits. This could happen if the timezone files aren't properly installed. This should normally happen when you do "make install", but verify that they are actually present (in share/timezone). > I also had to create a typedef int ssize_t in a couple of files to get > the compile finished. Maybe this is related. Other than that, have > not touched any code. I don't think that's related, but it's a clear indicator that something in your environment is broken. Because it should build without any such changes. //Magnus
