Thread: postgresql-7.1beta5 configure

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                        POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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Your name        :    Dmitry G. Mastrukov
Your email address    : dmitry@taurussoft.org


System Configuration
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  Architecture (example: Intel Pentium)      : Intel Pentium

  Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF)     : Linux 2.4.2
ELF

  PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.3.2)  :
PostgreSQL-7.1beta5

  Compiler used (example:  gcc 2.7.2)        : gcc 2.95.2


Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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Configure crashes on build from separate build directory with
mkdir: Cannot make directory 'src/backend/port': No such file or
directory




Please describe a way to repeat the problem.   Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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Create directory postgresql-build in the same directory as postgres
cd postgresql-build
../postgresql/configure




If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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Dmitry G . Mastrukov writes:

> Configure crashes on build from separate build directory with
> mkdir: Cannot make directory 'src/backend/port': No such file or
> directory

Do you get *any* directories created under the build tree?  Can you go
into config/prep_buildtree and change /bin/sh to /bin/sh -x and
reconfigure.  That should print a shell trace of what the directory
creation thing does.

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