On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Jon Hancock wrote:
I get to the 4th step and see I need gmake. I use make instead.
If you look at your make you'll probably find this: gsmith@gsmith-ubuntu:~$ make -v GNU Make 3.81 The standard Ubuntu make is gmake, just isn't named that way by them.
The bin directory is not accessible to anyone but root due to the permissions of the install. Should I have used a different umask for the make/install process? As I'm new to pg, what should I change the permissions to? Should I make the entire bin directory executable by anyone?
As you're asking it this isn't really a PostgreSQL problem, it's a UNIX permissions question. You should make the directory executable by everybody you want it to be executable by. I think your real question should be "how are the permissions set by the regular Ubuntu PostgreSQL package?" so that you can do the same thing they do. What you might consider is installing the official version, seeing how they set things up, take some notes on the permissions used, and then set the permissions on your source-based installation so they're similar.
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