I have added a reminder to the installation instructions. When gmake
stderr is piped into a file, I have added a reminder that gmake may be
called make on your system.
>
> > > Am running on a RedHat Linux 5.0 Intel box. Now have Postgres 6.2
> > > running on it so I know it works. Have been trying to compile the new
> > > Postgres 6.4.2 with no success. The configure utility seems to run all
> > > right, but running gmake all >& make.log & as the doc's call for exits
> > > immediately with a message [1] 3122. No other information is given.
>
> > For whatever reason, postgres doesn't compile (at least, not on my
> > systems) in any other directory tree than /usr/src/pgsql/src. Go figure.
> > Even if you have the default, /usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-6.4.2/src it comes
> > up with errors.
>
> That's plainly not true. I've build postgresql a thousand times in different
> locations with no problems whatsoever. Just make sure that when you
> do 'make install' you do it as user postgres (if that's waht you want to
> run postgres under). Maybe you'll have to allow that user write permissions
> in the directory you have built postgres, but I don't think so.
>
> I think the solution is much simpler: gmake (i.e. GNU make) is the default make'
> on Linux systems, so it's called 'make', not 'gmake'. 'gmake' doesn't exist
> on Linux systems. Because you're redirecting the output of your command to a file,
> this file will probably contain a message telling you it can't find gmake.
>
> try 'make all >& make.log'. I bet this'll work.
>
> Maybe another thing to put in the documentation. I know a friend of mine
> was bitten by this same problem recently.
>
> Maarten
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