"Stapleton, Mike" <Mike(dot)Stapleton(at)echostar(dot)com> writes:
> ... after I run ./configure (and out
> put looks OK), I run gmake and it goes into some recursive loop that never
> ends.
If you would have shown us some output, it might be easier to determine
what's going on. But I'm going to take a wild guess and suggest that
the machine's system clock is set to a date far in the past (older than
the file timestamps in the PG distribution).
regards, tom lane