Re: compilation error - Mailing list pgsql-novice

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Daniel A. Melo wrote:
> ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.aca wrote:

> > > The configure could not find some headers files (limits.h, netdb.h,
> > > pwd.h...) .
> > > i searched for them  and they are in
> > > "/usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/linux" and " /usr/include"
> >
> > Are you saying that there is only 1 of each of those files,
> > distributed across the 2 different directory trees, or that
> > both directory trees contain files with those names?
>
> both contain files with those names and i�ve found other directories with
> files like those....

The ones in /usr/include should be used if they are there.  Sometimes
a file is in a subdirectory of /usr/include (like
/usr/include/sys/time.h), in which case the include should have been
#include <sys/time.h>

Somehow, I doubt a problem like this is happening in your
case.

> > I believe I've seen mention that application programs (like
> > PostgreSQL) should NOT be using kernel headers.  Apparently
> > that is going to be made more difficult in the 2.4.x series.
>
> And what headers should i use?????

If PostgreSQL is calling kernel source headers, that is a job
for the PostgreSQL maintainers to address.  Somehow, your ./configure
has gotten confused (IMHO).

> > > i�ve tryed:
> > >
> > > ./configure --prefix="/usr/local/pgsql" --with-perl --with-odbc
> > > --with-includes="/usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/linux    /usr/include"
>
> It�s exactly like the postgres html manual....

Well, I haven't read the manual in a while.  But I have
been compiling a zillion packages (it seems) lately.

> > This doesn't quite look right (the includes directive).  I would
> > expect something like a PATH statement
> >  /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/linux:/usr/include
> > or
> >  --with-includes=/usr/src/linux....  --with-includes=/usr/include
> > But, since /usr/include should always be part of the includes
> > path,
>
> but the limits.h was not in /usr/include and i made a copy from
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/linux:/ to there...

I'm running Debian stable on a handy machine, it has many limits.h
include files: /usr/include, /usr/include/linux, a gcc specific one,
a perl one (actually perl-tk), several kernel ones (more than 1
kernel source tree on my machine).  In general, the 9 limits.h files
on my system are all different.  So, you don't want to copy a limits.h
file from the kernel sources into /usr/include.  I suspect your
C compiler didn't install completely/correctly, for you to be missing
header files in /usr/include.

Maybe you should try re-installing or updating your C-compiler,
and see if you get all the headers files.

Gord

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