On Sunday 13 July 2003 19:52, Richard Welty wrote:
> this is probably something stupid, but i don't normally install postgresql
> from source (rpms or openbsd packages have been my norm.) the ./configure
> step is failing thusly:
>
> configure: error:
> *** Could not execute a simple test program. This may be a problem
> *** related to locating shared libraries. Check the file 'config.log'
> *** for the exact reason.
>
> the tail of configure.log shows nothing of any diagnostic help whatsoever:
>
> # tail config.log
> #define HAVE_RL_FILENAME_COMPLETION_FUNCTION 1
> #define HAVE_FINITE 1
> #define HAVE_SIGSETJMP 1
> #define HAVE_SYSLOG 1
> #define HAVE_STRTOLL 1
> #define HAVE_STRTOULL 1
> #define HAVE_ATEXIT 1
> #define HAVE_FSEEKO 1
>
> configure: exit 1
Well, probably you need to look lot more lines than tail is showing here. Can
you post entire last test?
HTH
Shridhar