Your OS should have pid_t defined in an include file. Findit, and add
the #include to miscadmin.h. Then, tell us so we can add it here.
> At 11:06 AM 28/02/00, Ulf Mehlig wrote the following message:
> >P.S.: Ah, there was another problem, but I wasn able to reproduce it;
> > after compiling, "make install" did not install "initdb"; after
> > repeating the install, everything was in place (Redhat 6.1);
> > another install on RedHat 6.0 worked without problems.
> I couldn't compile it on FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE and FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE. Tried
> with stock gcc (2.7.2.1a faik) and gcc 2.95.2:
>
> /usr/local/bin/gcc295 -I../../include -I../../backend -O2 -m486 -pipe
> -I.. -c parse_type.c -o parse_type.o
> /usr/local/bin/gcc295 -I../../include -I../../backend -O2 -m486 -pipe
> -I.. -c parse_coerce.c -o parse_coer
> ce.o
> /usr/local/bin/gcc295 -I../../include -I../../backend -O2 -m486 -pipe
> -I.. -c parse_target.c -o parse_targ
> et.o
> /usr/local/bin/gcc295 -I../../include -I../../backend -O2 -m486 -pipe
> -I.. -c scan.c -o scan.o
> /usr/local/bin/gcc295 -I../../include -I../../backend -O2 -m486 -pipe
> -I.. -c scansup.c -o scansup.o
> In file included from scansup.c:20:
> ../../include/miscadmin.h:229: parse error before `pid'
> gmake[2]: *** [scansup.o] Error 1
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/work/databases/pgsql/src/backend/parser'
> gmake[1]: *** [parser.dir] Error 2
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/work/databases/pgsql/src/backend'
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
>
> The file has this:
>
> #define PIDFNAME "postmaster.pid"
>
> extern void SetPidFname(char *datadir);
> extern char *GetPidFname(void);
> extern void UnlinkPidFile(void);
> extern int SetPidFile(pid_t pid); <-------------- this line is problematic
>
> #endif /* MISCADMIN_H */
>
> Tomaz
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> Tomaz Borstnar <tomaz.borstnar@over.net>
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