"Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)" <andy.shellam-lists@mailnetwork.co.uk> writes:
> FYI: Reports on Google are wrong - they say that you need to use "gmake"
> to build the PostgreSQL server source. You don't.
I can assure you that you need GNU make to build any part of Postgres.
Perhaps what you're dealing with there is that "/usr/bin/make" is some
particularly ancient release of GNU make that has most but not quite all
of the features we depend on? "make -v" might prove informative.
regards, tom lane