Re: "make world" constantly throwing error on Ubuntu

On 01/15/2017 12:56 AM, Ankit Sablok wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install PostgreSQL from git source repo on my Ubuntu box
> the details of which are as follows :
>
> Distributor ID:Ubuntu
> Description:Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
> Release:16.04
> Codename:xenial
>
> while running "make world" after the configure script I am constantly
> receiving the following error and I am not able to find much help on web
> regarding the same :

It would be helpful to know:

1) Are you pulling from a particular head on the git repo or a
particular branch?

2) What where the arguments you passed to configure?

>
> /bin/sh ../../../config/missing osx -D. -x lower -i include-xslt-index
> postgres.sgml >postgres.xmltmp
> ***
> ERROR: `osx' is missing on your system.
> ***
> Makefile:250: recipe for target 'postgres.xml' failed
>
> Kindly help me out with the same.
>
> Thanks

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