Thread: compilation error on CentOS 5

Hi,

I am having difficulty compiling my postgresql 7.2.3  on a CentOS 5.
The same code works on our build machine which is running RedHat 7.2.

I have checked many of the configure(1) output with no major diff. Capturing the output of make reveals a silly problem which I am failing to find the root of. The problem is:

Compilation moves forward and at one point it does a "make -C libpq all". This operation builds all the object files and even ar(1) them to create libpq.a. But next step, attempting to run ranlib(1) fails because the ranlib command was misconstructed as in

/opt/ide/i2.02/hardhat/devkit/x86/pentium4/bin/pentium4-ranlibCFLAGS=-I/u/medi/share/src/port/usr/include

Note how "ranlibCFLAGS" should've been "ranlib CFLAGS"
So it looks like in my CentOS 5 something has changes such that the variable substituions are wrong. Which points to things that are autogenerated, which points to configure(1).

Any tips on the actual problem or how to get to the bottom of it is appreciated. Perhaps a few make tricks would surface the problem.

Thank you
Medi

"Medi Montaseri" <montaseri@gmail.com> writes:
> I am having difficulty compiling my postgresql 7.2.3  on a CentOS 5.

Why in the world are you trying to build a five-year-old PG release on
a current operating system?  Do yourself a favor and move up to some
recent release.

            regards, tom lane

Oh what I can share with you about employers who are not familiar with database technologies and how far they go to distance themselves from it or use it in such ill ways....

By the way, I have fixed the problem, and it looks like it was handcrafted makefile that caused it. It still does not explain why the same makefile works on previous OS releases, but that is another story and there many such stories in a day of software engineer.

Cheers for now....
Medi