Re: Assistance Needed: Error during PostgreSQL Configuration

Hi,
Sorry, I should have included the required information initially itself. I
am new to the database field so please pardon my mistakes :)
What I have done till now is clone the source code files from Gihub in my
Mac laptop and then try to follow this documentation
<https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/install-make.html>, then I got an
error posted in the mail in the very first step itself i.e. ./configure
command.

The PostgreSQL version is the latest (i.e. 16) as I have cloned the source
code from GitHub.
I have tried using both shells including zsh and bash here but same response
For sed, I am using GNU sed and also included this GNU sed in the PATH
variable

ayuvatsa(at)bcd0745f2da7 ~ % sed --version

sed (GNU sed) 4.9

The configure script runs fine till the step given below:

configure: using CPPFLAGS=-isysroot $(PG_SYSROOT)

configure: using LDFLAGS=-isysroot $(PG_SYSROOT) -Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs

configure: creating ./config.status

Thanks
Ayush Vatsa

On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 at 20:20, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > 2023年12月11日(月) 18:09 Ayush Vatsa <ayushvatsa1810(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> >> ./config.status: line 486: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
> >> ./config.status: line 486: ` *\'*) ac_optarg=`$as_echo "$ac_optarg" |
> sed "s/'/'\\\\\\\\''/g"` ;;'
>
> > You should provide, at the very least, the following information:
> > - the PostgreSQL version you are trying to build
> > - the environment you are trying to build it in
>
> +1
>
> > A very hand-wavy guess, but possibly your local "sed" installation is
> > not GNU sed?
>
> I'm also wondering if the shell in use is nonstandard. The configure
> script would likely already have failed if you tried to run it with,
> say, csh; but maybe more-subtly-incompatible shells could give rise
> to this symptom.
>
> regards, tom lane
>