Thread: Tripping up on my first attempt at building PG from source
I just bought a new Ubuntu Laptop so that I could tryout and hopefully
offer support for a few of my favorite pgfoundry projects.
Would anyone be able to give any dirction on what I need to do to get
passed this error?
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My first attempt with building from source ended with the following:
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# ./configure
...
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:
C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
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Viewing the config.log shows the following error:
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gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)
configure:2218: $? = 0
configure:2220: gcc -V </dev/null >&5
gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:2223: $? = 1
configure:2246: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2249: gcc conftest.c >&5
/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:2252: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h. */
|
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "PostgreSQL"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "postgresql"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "8.3.1"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "PostgreSQL 8.3.1"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org"
| #define PG_VERSION "8.3.1"
| #define DEF_PGPORT 5432
| #define DEF_PGPORT_STR "5432"
| /* end confdefs.h. */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
| ;
| return 0;
| }
configure:2291: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
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Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.
Visit the Los Angles PostgreSQL Users Group (LAPUG)
http://pugs.postgresql.org/lapug
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 22:54 -0700, Richard Broersma wrote: > I just bought a new Ubuntu Laptop so that I could tryout and hopefully > offer support for a few of my favorite pgfoundry projects. > > Would anyone be able to give any dirction on what I need to do to get > passed this error? You don't have any build tools install. Try: apt-get install binutils gcc autoconf flex Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake
"Richard Broersma" <richard.broersma@gmail.com> writes:
> Would anyone be able to give any dirction on what I need to do to get
> passed this error?
> /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
Seems you've got an incomplete installation. On my Fedora machine,
crt1.o is provided by the glibc-devel RPM ... dunno how Ubuntu
splits things up.
regards, tom lane
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote: > You don't have any build tools install. Try: > > apt-get install binutils gcc autoconf flex Thanks gentlemen, I will give these ideas a try. -- Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. Visit the Los Angles PostgreSQL Users Group (LAPUG) http://pugs.postgresql.org/lapug
Le jeudi 05 juin 2008, Joshua D. Drake a écrit : > You don't have any build tools install. Try: > apt-get install binutils gcc autoconf flex Or even better: apt-get build-dep postgresql-8.3 -- dim
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Tom Lane wrote: > "Richard Broersma" <richard.broersma@gmail.com> writes: >> Would anyone be able to give any dirction on what I need to do to get >> passed this error? > >> /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory > > Seems you've got an incomplete installation. On my Fedora machine, > crt1.o is provided by the glibc-devel RPM ... dunno how Ubuntu > splits things up. $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/crt1.o libc6-dev: /usr/lib/crt1.o ... so you're missing the libc6-dev package. However, you'll find there's lots else missing too, since you appear to have just installed gcc but no supporting libraries etc. You need to install at least the `build-essential' package, which will pull in all the core headers and libraries. You may also need other library -dev packages. As Ubuntu packages PostgreSQL, the easiest way to get everything you need is to tell it to install all the build dependencies of the postgresql source package: sudo apt-get build-dep postgresql When you configure your custom postgresql build make sure to use a --prefix that points it somewhere sensible. DO NOT configure it with --prefix=/usr. A good option is to use something like --prefix=/opt/postgresql83 so the whole app is neatly self contained. An alternative might be to `apt-get source postgresql' then modify the package and rebuild it by running 'debian/rules binary' from the package source dir. However, depending on the changes you're going to make this might be more hassle than it's worth. -- Craig Ringer
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au> wrote: > sudo apt-get build-dep postgresql Thanks, this works perfectly now! -- Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. Visit the Los Angles PostgreSQL Users Group (LAPUG) http://pugs.postgresql.org/lapug