Take a peek at the -L option to initdb. Sounds like you need to do something
like:
initdb -L c:\pgsql\share -D c:\pgsql\data -W --lc-collate=C
This is a long standing quirk with the win32 port which is (finally) being
fixed pretty much as we speak.
Cheers,
Claudio
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Luckhurst [mailto:rickl@soundadvice.aunz.net]
> Sent: Thursday, 13 May 2004 11:04 AM
> To: PGSQL Hackers
> Subject: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Runtime Problems
>
> Hello All
>
> I am quite new to pgsql and the Win32 port. I have just tried Vishal's new
guide to building
> and I am having what looks like a path problem when I try to initialise a
database. I am using
> Windows 2000. Everything builds and installs OK and I have copied the
files in the msys\1.0\local\pgsql
> to my c:\pgsql folder as per the instructions. I have added C:\pgsql\bin
and c:\pgsql\lib to my path
> as instructed. When I try to run initdb I get the following error
>
> initdb -D c:\pgsql\data -W --lc-collate=C
> Bad command or file name
> fgets failure: No error
> Bad command or file name
> fgets failure: No error
> The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in
> the directory "C:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/bin". Check your installation
>
> I would appreciate any clues here as this has me stumped. I don't
understand
> why is should even be looking in the msys directory.
>
> Regards
>
> Richard
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