Bob McConnell <rmcconne@lightlink.com> writes:
> I have a Slackware 10.2.0 machine which has been happily serving files,
> Apache, Pg, etc. across my home network for some time. I had no problem
> installing pg 8.2.1 on it. But now when I try to install 8.3.5,
> configure dies complaining that gcc can't build an executable. Looking
> at the log, it says crt1.o does not exist. I looked, and sure enough, it
> doesn't exist.
Well, you changed something else on that machine since installing 8.2.1
... assuming you built 8.2.1 from source there; are you sure you didn't
install a prepackaged build? This error says you've got a fundamentally
broken or incomplete C compilation environment, and that's not exactly
postgres' fault.
I don't know how Slackware divvies up this stuff, but you might need to
install packages labeled "C development tools" or some such if you want
to build PG from source.
regards, tom lane