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8.0.0beta5 fails "make check" on Solaris9/i386

From
Chris Albertson
Date:
Hello,

"make check" failed on my system.  See the last line below and
the "/./" in the pathname.  Ask if you want more information then
I have included below.  I'm not subscribbed to the list.  Send
direct e-mail.  Thanks for all the hard work.  I'm using 7.4 in
daily production on same system.



wi792:~/postgresql-8.0.0beta5>uname -a
SunOS wi792.aero.org 5.9 Generic_117172-11 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris

wi792:~/postgresql-8.0.0beta5/doc>gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3.2

wi792:~/postgresql-8.0.0beta5/doc>make --version
GNU Make version 3.78.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for i386-pc-solaris2.8


wi792:~/postgresql-8.0.0beta5>make check
<SNIP>
============== creating temporary installation        ==============
============== initializing database system           ==============

pg_regress: initdb failed
Examine ./log/initdb.log for the reason.

make[2]: *** [check] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/alberts/postgresql-8.0.0beta5/src/test/regress'
make[1]: *** [check] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/alberts/postgresql-8.0.0beta5/src/test'
make: *** [check] Error 2
wi792:~/postgresql-8.0.0beta5>



cat /home/alberts/postgresql-8.0.0beta5/src/test/regress/log/initdb.log

Running in noclean mode.  Mistakes will not be cleaned up.
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
"alberts".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

creating directory
/home/alberts/postgresql-8.0.0beta5/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data
... initdb: failed
wi792:~/postgresql-8.0.0beta5>




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Re: 8.0.0beta5 fails "make check" on Solaris9/i386

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com> writes:
> creating directory
> /home/alberts/postgresql-8.0.0beta5/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data
> ... initdb: failed

Now that I look at it, the new improved incarnation of initdb seems
prone to say no more than that after a lot of different errors :-(.
But the question for you is why it couldn't create that directory.
Permissions problem maybe?

            regards, tom lane