Re: "make world" constantly throwing error on Ubuntu

On 01/15/2017 12:56 AM, Ankit Sablok wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install PostgreSQL from git source repo on my Ubuntu box
> the details of which are as follows :
>
> Distributor ID:Ubuntu
> Description:Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
> Release:16.04
> Codename:xenial
>
> while running "make world" after the configure script I am constantly
> receiving the following error and I am not able to find much help on web
> regarding the same :
>
> /bin/sh ../../../config/missing osx -D. -x lower -i include-xslt-index
> postgres.sgml >postgres.xmltmp
> ***
> ERROR: `osx' is missing on your system.

Aah, I assumed this had something to do with OS X. Wrong assumption. On
my openSUSE install where make world succeeded I find the program osx:

aklaver(at)tito:~> osx --help
Usage: osx [OPTION] SYSID..

....

osx converts SGML to XML. osx parses and validates the SGML document
contained in SYSID... and writes an equivalent XML document to the
standard output. osx will warn about SGML constructs which have no XML
equivalent.

So it seems you need to install osx on your system.

> ***
> Makefile:250: recipe for target 'postgres.xml' failed
>
> Kindly help me out with the same.
>
> Thanks

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