On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 16:37 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > Would plpgsql.so get built with.. > > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql833 --without-readline --disable-shared > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Uh, no. That probably explains why regress.so didn't get built, either. > > regards, tom lane OK -- rebuilt without '--disable-shared', and ======================= All 114 tests passed. ======================= 1) Should the Docs note that '--disable-shared' will prevent the compile time regression checks from running 2) Should the compilation note to the user that '--disable-shared' will prevent compile time regression checks from running 3) should the error message output when regression fails for the above reason not be along the lines of ...snip... gmake[2]: stat:regress.so: There are too many levels of symbolic links to translate a path name. rm -f regress.so ln -s regress.so gmake[2]: stat:regress.so: There are too many levels of symbolic links to translate a path name. ...snip... 4) if '--disable-shared' is passed, should the user be notified that compile time regression checks will be skipped ( and then skip them ).