Re: BUG #1476: on Xeon 2.8 can't instaling source

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Sinisa Zivanovic wrote:
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>>The following bug has been logged online:
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>>Bug reference: 1476
>>Logged by: Sinisa Zivanovic
>>Email address: pcbiro(at)yahoo(dot)com
>>PostgreSQL version: 7.3.2
>>Operating system: SuSE 8.2
>>Description: on Xeon 2.8 can't instaling source
>>Details:
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>>on Xeon 2.8
>>./configure is ok
>>gmake don know what to do - compaling all day !
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>>on AMD K8 3.0 is ok!
>>
>>
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>Buggy compiler? It should compile in 1-3 minutes on that machine.
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>

If I understand you problem right, the solution is fairly simple.
Check your system date. I remeber seeing configure running for ever on
some operating system when you change the system date to 1970 or so (I
think tar xvfz would issue a warning in this case anyway).

Maybe this helps.

Regards,

Hans