Tom -
Didn't realize I was arm waving - was I? (Sometimes email falls well short...) We've managed a build of PostgreSQL 9.0-alpha4 - nice! However, the # make install command apparently(?) hiccups on a dependency on Jade (we ain't usin' it!) Here's the exact make install output: - - - snip make[3]: Entering directory `/media/SOURCES/postgresql-9.0alpha4/doc/src/sgml' { \ echo "<!entity version \"9.0alpha4\">"; \ echo "<!entity majorversion \"9.0\">"; \ } >version.sgml "/usr/local/bin/perl" ./mk_feature_tables.pl YES ../../../src/backend/catalog/sql_feature_packages.txt ../../../src/backend/catalog/sql_features.txt > features-supported.sgml "/usr/local/bin/perl" ./mk_feature_tables.pl NO ../../../src/backend/catalog/sql_feature_packages.txt ../../../src/backend/catalog/sql_features.txt > features-unsupported.sgml jade -wall -wno-unused-param -wno-empty -wfully-tagged -D . -D . -c /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets/catalog -d stylesheet.dsl -t sgml -i output-html -V html-index postgres.sgml make[3]: jade: Command not found make[3]: *** [HTML.index] Error 127 make[3]: Leaving directory `/media/SOURCES/postgresql-9.0alpha4/doc/src/sgml' make[2]: *** [install] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/media/SOURCES/postgresql-9.0alpha4/doc/src' make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/SOURCES/postgresql-9.0alpha4/doc' make: *** [install] Error 2 - - - snip Looking at the Error 127; chown'd all files to root, then tried the make install again - as root - with same result. Got around this by commenting out the $DOC line in GNUmakefile's make install section, and seem to have installed rest of the build AOK… Would it make sense: to have more granular control over docs build in the config script - specific kinds of docs/no docs at all/etc? Thanks for any help, and for the great work! We love PostgreSQL! Lou ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Lane" <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> To: "Lou Picciano" <loupicci...@comcast.net> Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:08:19 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [BUGS] PostgreSQL-9.0alpha: jade required? Lou Picciano <loupicci...@comcast.net> writes: > Not sure it's exactly a bug, but in attempting a compile of > PostgreSQL-9.0alpha, we are getting a choke on jade (don't have jade on this > system) > Can the config script test for jade or, better yet, allow an option to turn > off build of documentation? Would you show exactly what happened rather than arm-waving? I'm sure that the majority of the buildfarm machines don't have jade installed, but they're getting through their builds OK. (And yes, there *is* a configure check.) regards, tom lane