Re: Errors building older versions of PostgreSQL

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:29:41PM -0700, Gregory Youngblood wrote:

> It gets through most of the make process, but then at the point where
> it starts creating files like GNUmakefile, it returns:
> sed: file conftest.sl line 35: unterminated `s' command

The problem is that GCC now gives a multiline string when given
--version. I think the easiest way out is to change the configure file,
where it says

CC_VERSION=`${CC} --version`

to something like

CC_VERSION=`${CC} --version | head -1`

(Or change configure.in and rerun autoconf)

> Second problem, this time is for 7.1.
>
> 7.1 is configured with:
> ./configure --prefix=/export/storage/PostgreSQL/7.1 --pgport=5434
>
> It doesn't get as far as 7.0, but it does get to:
> Checking types of arguments for accept() . . .

I think the easiest would be to take the
config/ac_func_accept_argtypes.m4 file from a newer release, rerun
autoconf, and rerun configure.

--
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"In fact, the basic problem with Perl 5's subroutines is that they're not
crufty enough, so the cruft leaks out into user-defined code instead, by
the Conservation of Cruft Principle." (Larry Wall, Apocalypse 6)