Re: Help? Unexpected PostgreSQL compilation failure using generic compile script

On 3/12/23 14:43, Martin Goodson wrote:
> Hello.
>
> For reasons I won't bore you with, we compile PostgreSQL from source
> rather than use the standard packages for some of our databases.
>

> So a fairly basic script that has been used for years suddenly fails on
> a fairly generic RHEL 7.9 server.
>
> I am no compilation expert. Obviously. Have I mised something basic? As
> I said, we've not seen problems like this before. Could there be some
> sort of issue on the box's configuration? If it works for root but not
> our usual build user could there be a user config with our account? Can
> anyone offer any insight on what I need to check? At the moment it all
> seems somewhat ... mystifying.

SELinux issues?

Have you looked at the system logs to see if they shed any light?

>
> I am assuming there must be something wrong with the box/our
> configuration somewhere, but where to look? If anyone can help - even if
> it's to tell me I'm an idiot for missing one or more incredibly basic
> things somehow - I would be very grateful.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> M.
>

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