Re: BUG #4068: Failed to compile 8.3.1

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> What we haven't quite figured out is why the file wasn't present on the
> tarball he downloaded.  Is it possible that a borked tarball was
> uploaded somewhere?

I seem to recall we found that some tar versions have a limit on total
pathname length?  The tarball was actually OK but it got extracted
incorrectly.  However the OP seems to be running a reasonably current
Linux so it's hard to believe he's got that problem.

            regards, tom lane