Re: 8.2 Admin Pack broken? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 8.2 Admin Pack broken?
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Msg-id 19595.1171730382@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: 8.2 Admin Pack broken?  ("Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)" <andy.shellam-lists@mailnetwork.co.uk>)
Responses Re: 8.2 Admin Pack broken?  ("Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)" <andy.shellam-lists@mailnetwork.co.uk>)
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"Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)" <andy.shellam-lists@mailnetwork.co.uk> writes:
> FYI: Reports on Google are wrong - they say that you need to use "gmake"
> to build the PostgreSQL server source.  You don't.

I can assure you that you need GNU make to build any part of Postgres.
Perhaps what you're dealing with there is that "/usr/bin/make" is some
particularly ancient release of GNU make that has most but not quite all
of the features we depend on?  "make -v" might prove informative.

            regards, tom lane

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