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Your name        :    Rich Shepard
Your email address    :    rshepard@appl-ecosys.com


System Configuration
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  Architecture (example: Intel Pentium)      : Intel Pentium II/233MHz

  Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF)     : Linux 2.0.36 ELF (RH 5.1)

  PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.4)  :   PostgreSQL-6.4

  Compiler used (example:  gcc 2.8.0)        :  gcc 2.7.2.3


Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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There are no headers but one in /usr/local/include.

First and last lines from make.log are included here:

gmake lexverify
gmake[1]: Entering directory /usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-v6.4/src'
gmake -C lextest all
gmake[2]: Entering directory /usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-v6.4/src/lextest'
flex scan.l
gcc -c lex.yy.c
lex.yy.c:11: warning: Header file /usr/local/include/stdio.h exists, but is
not
readable
In file included from lex.yy.c:11:
/usr/include/stdio.h:29: warning: Header file /usr/local/include/libio.h
exists, but is not readable
In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:29,
                 from lex.yy.c:11:
/usr/include/libio.h:29: warning: Header file /usr/local/include/features.h
exists, but is not readable
In file included from /usr/include/libio.h:29,
                 from /usr/include/stdio.h:29,
                 from lex.yy.c:11:
/usr/include/features.h:205: warning: Header file
/usr/local/include/sys/cdefs.h exists, but is not readable
In file included from /usr/include/features.h:205,
                 from /usr/include/libio.h:29,
                 from /usr/include/stdio.h:29,
                 from lex.yy.c:11:
<snip>

gmake[3]: *** No rule to make target path/SUBSYS.o'.  Stop.
gmake[3]: Leaving directory
/usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-v6.4/src/backend/optimizer/util'
gmake[3]: Entering directory
/usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-v6.4/src/backend/optimizer/geqo'
gmake[3]: *** No rule to make target path/SUBSYS.o'.  Stop.
gmake[3]: Leaving directory
/usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-v6.4/src/backend/optimizer/geqo'
gmake[2]: *** [path/SUBSYS.o] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory
/usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-v6.4/src/backend/optimizer'
gmake[1]: *** [optimizer.dir] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-v6.4/src/backend'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2


Please describe a way to repeat the problem.   Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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Administrator's Guide, Chapter 4 (Installation), Step 14:

    cd /usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-v6.4/src
    gmake all >& make.log &
    tail -f make.log




If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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  Sigh, no I don't. I'm hoping that you folks can come up with an answer. I
need to port my accounting software by the end of the month. My existing DOS
software isn't Y2K compliant and will cease to work when we close the books
at the end of the fiscal year.

Thanks.


Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.
2404 SW 22nd Street
Troutdale, OR 97060-1247  U.S.A.
+ 1 503-667-4517 (voice) | + 1 503-667-8863 (fax)
rshepard@appl-ecosys.com