Re: Errors installing 7.2

"Steve Wolfe" <steve(at)iboats(dot)com> writes:
> I tried installing 7.2 on a "beater box",

Er, that doesn't convey a lot ;-). Platform, OS level, etc, please.

> 1. if "--with-perl" is passed to ./configure, then "make" gives me:

> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/packages/postgresql-7.2/src/interfaces/libpq'
> make -f Makefile all VPATH=
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/usr/src/packages/postgresql-7.2/src/interfaces/perl5'
> make[4]: *** No rule to make target `/Pg.pm', needed by `pm_to_blib'.
> Stop.

Peculiar. What else did you pass to configure? What Perl version
are you using?

> runs, but trying to feed in a pg_dumpall from 7.1.2, I get the following
> message repeated thousands of times:

> "Invalid command - \N"

I rather doubt that was the only message. What did you get before
those?

regards, tom lane