FreeBSD version 6.5; no luck :-[

After faithfully following the instructions, when I go to run
'postmaster -i' I get the message:

"Bad system call (core dumped)"

Furthermore, when I do a 'gmake clean' followed by a 'gmake
gmake COPT="-g" all
and a
gmake install

and try to gdb the program, it says that I don't have any symbols.

%gdb postmaster
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GDB 4.16 (i386-unknown-freebsd),
Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc...(no debugging symbols
found)...
(gdb) run -i
Starting program: /usr/bin/postmaster -i
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
0x1020 in ?? ()
(gdb) quit

But configure certainly seems to know what system I'm on...

# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i386-unknown-freebsd2.2.5
checking echo setting...
checking setting template to... freebsd
checking setting USE_LOCALE... disabled
checking setting CYR_RECODE... disabled
checking setting MULTIBYTE... disabled
checking setting DEF_PGPORT... 5432
checking setting DEF_MAXBACKENDS... 32
checking setting USE_TCL... disabled
checking setting USE_PERL... disabled
checking setting USE_ODBC... disabled
checking setting ASSERT CHECKING... disabled
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -m486 -pipe ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -m486 -pipe ) is a
cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... (cached) no
- setting CPPFLAGS=
- setting LDFLAGS=
checking for c++... (cached) c++
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++   ) works... yes
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++   ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C++... (cached) yes
checking whether c++ accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking for flex... (cached) flex
checking for yywrap in -lfl... (cached) yes
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for find... (cached) /usr/bin/find
checking for tar... (cached) /usr/bin/tar
checking for split... (cached) /usr/bin/split
checking for etags... no
checking for xargs... (cached) /usr/bin/xargs
checking for ipcs... (cached) /usr/bin/ipcs
checking for ipcrm... (cached) /usr/bin/ipcrm
checking for trbsd... (cached) /usr/bin/tr
checking for gzcat... (cached) /usr/bin/gzcat
checking for bison... (cached) /usr/bin/bison
- Using /usr/bin/bison -y -d
checking for main in -lsfio... (cached) no
checking for main in -lncurses... (cached) yes
checking for main in -ltermcap... (cached) yes
checking for main in -lhistory... (cached) no
checking for main in -lreadline... (cached) yes
checking for write_history in -lreadline... (cached) yes
checking for main in -lbsd... (cached) no
checking for main in -lm... (cached) yeschecking for main in -ldl...
(cached) no
checking for main in -lsocket... (cached) no
checking for main in -lnsl... (cached) no
checking for main in -lipc... (cached) no
checking for main in -lIPC... (cached) no
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checking for main in -ldld... (cached) no
checking for main in -lln... (cached) yes
checking for main in -lld... (cached) no
checking for main in -lcompat... (cached) yes
checking for main in -lBSD... (cached) no
checking for main in -lcrypt... (cached) yes
checking for main in -lgen... (cached) no
checking for main in -lPW... (cached) no
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... (cached) yes
checking for limits.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for termios.h... (cached) yes
checking for values.h... (cached) no
checking for sys/select.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/resource.h... (cached) yes
checking for netdb.h... (cached) yes
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checking for readline.h... (cached) no
checking for history.h... (cached) no
checking for dld.h... (cached) no
checking for crypt.h... (cached) no
checking for endian.h... (cached) no
checking for float.h... (cached) yes
checking for readline/readline.h... (cached) yes
checking for readline/history.h... (cached) yes
checking for ieeefp.h... (cached) no
checking for fp_class.h... (cached) no
checking for netinet/in.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
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checking for pwd.h... (cached) yes
checking for working const... (cached) yes
checking for inline... (cached) inline
checking for preprocessor stringizing operator... (cached) yes
checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking for mode_t... (cached) yes
checking for off_t... (cached) yes
checking for size_t... (cached) yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... (cached)
yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... (cached) time.h

checking for tm_zone in struct tm... (cached) yes
checking for signed types... yes
checking for volatile... yes
checking for type of last arg to accept... size_t
checking for int timezone... nochecking for signed types... yes
checking for volatile... yes
checking for type of last arg to accept... size_t
checking for int timezone... no
checking for gettimeofday args... 2 args
checking for union semun... yes
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checking for good DBL_MIN... yes
checking for 8-bit clean memcmp... (cached) yes
checking return type of signal handlers... (cached) void
checking for vprintf... (cached) yes
checking for tzset... (cached) yes
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checking for fpclass... (cached) no
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checking for isinf... (cached) yes
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checking for srandom... (cached) yes
checking for gethostname... (cached) yes
checking for random... (cached) yes
checking for inet_aton... (cached) yes
checking for strerror... (cached) yes
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checking whether 'long int' is 64 bits... no
checking whether 'long long int' is 64 bits... yes
checking whether snprintf handles 'long long int' as %lld... no
checking whether snprintf handles 'long long int' as %qd... yes
checking alignment of short... (cached) 2
checking alignment of int... (cached) 4
checking alignment of long... (cached) 4
checking alignment of long long int... (cached) 4
checking alignment of double... (cached) 4
checking for POSIX signal interface... yes
checking for tclsh... no
checking for tcl... no
configure: warning: TCL/TK support disabled; tcl shell is not in your
path
updating cache ./config.cache