> Did you try the latest patch? Maybe it will help, and if not, it will
> (hopefully) give a lot more informative error messages.
No, and I got rid of my debian boxes @ home.
The patch required a certain amount of modifications too, to even
compile with 2.8.
So I guess it's a valid question to ask: it it worth supporting 2.8?
It is of course an option to bundle icu 3.2 with pg!
... John