Thread: ./configure problems

HI!

I did this to install postgres in a new machine:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql --with-tcl --with-perl

and I got this:
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... /usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-7.0.2/src/config.guess:
13497442: No space left on device
/usr/src/pggsql/postgresql-4.0.2/sr/config.guess: 135012768: No space left on
device
configure: error: can not guess host type: you must specify one

I have 8GB in the /usr directory
Do somebody know whats going on?

Thanks

Rocael

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On 8 Nov 2000 rocael@usa.net wrote:

> I did this to install postgres in a new machine:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql --with-tcl --with-perl
> 
> and I got this:
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... /usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-7.0.2/src/config.guess:
> 13497442: No space left on device
> /usr/src/pggsql/postgresql-4.0.2/sr/config.guess: 135012768: No space left on
> device
> configure: error: can not guess host type: you must specify one
> 
> I have 8GB in the /usr directory
> Do somebody know whats going on?

When you run configure, configure itself runs lots of commands,
program compilations and etc... in order to test your environment. 

It's highly probable that one of these commands need free space in /tmp as
well as in /usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-7.0.2/src/

IMHO you should check for free space in /tmp

good luck.

Jerome Alet