It's rumoured that brian janaszek once said:
>> I doubt I'll be able to solve the actual problem for you, but just so
>> you know it can be done, I've compiled and built PostgreSQL 7.3.2 with
>> no problems on Slackware 9 (actually there were problems running it
>> but that turned out to be a buggy bios).
>> Regards, Dave
>
> Well, thanks for the positive thoughts ;-)
>
> I'm assuming your environment was the same (same gcc and gmake)? Most
> of the errors point to specific values/tuples/references within the
> source code.
Yup, out of the box Slackware 9.
> I'm still sorta feeling my way around the Slackware package
> system...did you install via the source tarball from postgres, or did
> you generate a .tgz package and use Slack's installpkg?
Unpacked the tarball, then ./configure; make; make install
Couldn't be more standard (that's the way I like too keep it - easier to
rebuild if the worst happens!).
Regards, Dave.