Re: Performance Test for PostgreSQL9

Use apt-get to install

sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev
and zlib1g-dev. Then do a symbolic link for make to gmake.

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Selva manickaraja <mavles78(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> Yes, true now it looks like pg-general. I started out this discussion
> because I couldn't get Performance Testing done. But looks like the
> performance cannot be done due to the tool cannot be built...:) and all
> evils are getting unleashed from this..
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> OK, I did exactly to move to the top of the directory and run the
> ./configure first. Everything work until the last time it reports error
> now....
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> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> checking for -lreadline... no
> checking for -ledit... no
> configure: error: readline library not found
> If you have readline already installed, see config.log for details on the
> failure. It is possible the compiler isn't looking in the proper
> directory.
> Use --without-readline to disable readline support.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I tried man readline and man edit, there seem to manuals on it. I checked
> the Synaptic Manager. There seem to be a package called readline-common. I
> then search the net for some assistance. Looks like there was another guy
> who had a similar problem like me. The URL is
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1638949
>
> So I tried installing 'readline' using
>
> ->sudo apt-cache search readline
> AND
> ->sudo apt-get install libreadline6 libreadline6-dev
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> Upon answering 'y' to install without verification, I get Bad Gateway
> error.
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> Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
> Err http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main libncurses5-dev
> i386 5.7+20100626-0ubuntu1
> 502 Bad Gateway
> Err http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main libreadline6-dev
> i386 6.1-3
> 502 Bad Gateway
> Failed to fetch
> http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/ncurses/libncurses5-dev_5.7+20100626-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
> 502 Bad Gateway
> Failed to fetch
> http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/r/readline6/libreadline6-dev_6.1-3_i386.deb
> 502 Bad Gateway
> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with
> --fix-missing?
>
> Looks like I'm stuck at this level. Please assist to breakaway....
>
> Thank you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Selvam
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> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Mark Kirkwood <
> mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz> wrote:
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>> On 28/02/11 18:09, Selva manickaraja wrote:
>>
>> As mentioned in the documentation, I went to the directory
>> src/test/regress and ran the command. It gives the error
>>
>> GNUmakefile:15: ../../../src/Makefile.global: No such file or directory
>> GNUmakefile:80: /src/Makefile.shlib: No such file or directory
>> make: *** No rule to make target `/src/Makefile.shlib'. Stop.
>>
>> Really can't make any sense out of this.
>>
>> Any ideas?
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>> You have not run configure to generate these make files (or you have run
>> 'make distclean' to destroy them).
>>
>> generally you need to do:
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>> $ ./configure --prefix=your-chosen-install-prefix-here
>> $ make
>> $ make install
>> $ make check
>>
>> The last step runs the regression test.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> P.s: this discussion really belongs on pg-general rather than performance,
>> as it is about building and installing postgres rather than performance,
>> *when* you have it installed ok, then performance based discussion here is
>> fine :-)
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