Thanks Bob for your lead. I was finally able to solve my issue. I had earlier installed the binary version of postgresql. As I had to compile certain contrib/modules sometime back, I had chosen to set USE PGXS=1 in my .zshrc file. This was causing these errors. It was silly mistake from my end. Thanks a ton for your lead which helped me discover the root cause.
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Bhavin Kamani <bhavinkamani@gmail.com> wrote: > I am installing postgresql using homebrew on OSX. I am getting strange > compilation errors. Googling did not help me in getting any lead to the > resolution. When I compile it on a standalone basis (without using brew) I > still get the same error. Compiling 9.1beta1 source package also gave me the > same set of errors. > Any lead/help will be highly appreciated.
I'm not exactly sure what's going on here, but contrib modules can be built in two ways: with PGXS, or without PGXS. Typically, you compile without PGXS when you're building the server and it's contrib modules, and with PGXS if the server is already installed (and thus pg_config is present) and you just want to compile one more module. Here it looks like you're doing an in-tree compile but somehow PGXS is getting enabled anyway - not sure what's going on there.
