Re: Build PostgreSQL manually with uuid

On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 10:04:01PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> Following the documentation at
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/install-procedure.html and
> configuring the option --with-uuid=ossp won't build the uuid-ossp extension
> at the following make / make install steps. For this, I need to change to
> ./contrib/uuid-ossp and execute an additional make / make install from
> there. This is missing in the documentation.

What do you have as value for with_uuid in src/Makefile.global.in?
uuid-ossp would be compiled from the root path if its value is something
else than "no" (see contrib/Makefile). Based on what you do, it should
be set to "ossp", and this has not changed for ages.
--
Michael