Re: v13 latest snapshot build error - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org> writes:
I'm getting build error while building latest snapshot. Any idea why? Please
note that I'm adding this patch to the  tarball:
https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgrpms.git;a=blob;f=rpm/redhat/master/postgresql-13/master/postgresql-13-var-run-socket.patch;h=a0292a80ae219b4c8dc1c2e686a3521f02b4330d;hb=HEAD

(Hey, I recognize that patch ...)

In file included from ../../../../src/include/c.h:55,
                 from ../../../../src/include/postgres.h:46,
                 from guc.c:17:
../../../../src/include/pg_config_manual.h:200:31: error: called object is not
a function or function pointer
 #define DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR  "/var/run/postgresql"
                               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
guc.c:4064:3: note: in expansion of macro 'DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR'
   DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR ", /tmp"
   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[4]: *** [<builtin>: guc.o] Error 1

That is just weird.  Could it be a compiler bug?  I assume you're
using some bleeding-edge gcc version, and it's really hard to see
another reason why this would fail, especially with a nonsensical
error like that.

			regards, tom lane