Re: gmake -C regress check failure

Christoph Haller <ch(at)rodos(dot)fzk(dot)de> writes:
> I've installed postgresql-7.3.2 on HP-UX yesterday.
> When running 'gmake -C regress check'
> the process does not return.

See doc/FAQ_HPUX:

: The parallel regression test script (gmake check) is known to lock up
: when run under HP's Bourne shells: /usr/bin/sh and /sbin/sh. This is a
: known defect JAGad84609, the fix for which is not yet in any released
: HP-UX version or shell patches. To work around it, use ksh to run the
: regression script:
: gmake SHELL=/bin/ksh check
:
: If you see that the tests have stopped making progress and only a shell
: process is consuming CPU, kill the shell process and start over with the
: above command.

regards, tom lane