Re: compiling postgresql with uuid-ossp failure

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Ibrahim Shaame <ishaame(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: compiling postgresql with uuid-ossp failure
Date: 2019-02-28 16:57:57
Message-ID: 10858.1551373077@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Ibrahim Shaame <ishaame(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I have installed idempiere ERP which requires uuid-ossp library. I have
> tried to recompile postgresql-11.2 with the option --with-uuid=ossp.

That option doesn't in itself cause any contrib modules to be built
or installed ...

> I get the following error:
> ERROR: could not open extension control file
> "/data/databases/postgres/pgsql11/share/extension/uuid-ossp.control": No
> such file or directory.

... and you evidently don't have uuid-ossp installed. You need to do
"make ; make install" in either contrib/uuid-ossp, or the parent
contrib directory if you want all the contrib extensions.

regards, tom lane

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