Re: Initdb failure with PG 7.1.3 on RH 7.1...

Tom Lane wrote:

>Paul Stavrides <pstav123@adelie.net> writes:
>
>>No,  looks like this is the cause.  My $prefix/share/global.bki is only
>>17 bytes long and has only the header line:
>>
>
>>    # PostgreSQL 7.1
>>
>
>Ah-hah.  We've seen some prior reports of portability problems in the
>sed commands used by src/backend/catalog/genbki.sh, which is the script
>that builds those files.  But the last fix in that area was pre-7.1
>release.  Maybe you have a broken sed or awk installed?
>
>            regards, tom lane
>
Tom,


Hmmm, checked the sed and awk and they are up to date....  I'm not an
expert, but it looks like the Makefile in ../src/backend/catalog/ isn't
reporting sed's exit status up the chain.  So I lied about there being
no build errors.... to whit:


/usr/bin/ld -r -o SUBSYS.o catalog.o heap.o index.o indexing.o aclchk.o
pg_aggregate.o pg_largeobject.o pg_operator.o pg_proc.o pg_type.o
CPP='gcc -E' AWK='gawk' /bin/sh genbki.sh  -o global
-I../../../src/include ../../../src/include/catalog/pg_database.h
../../../src/include/catalog/pg_variable.
h ../../../src/include/catalog/pg_shadow.h
../../../src/include/catalog/pg_group.h
../../../src/include/catalog/pg_log.h --set-version=7.1.3
sed: -e expression #9, char 25: Unterminated `s' command
CPP='gcc -E' AWK='gawk' ....{snip}...
set-version=7.1.3
sed: -e expression #9, char 25: Unterminated `s' command


The build still proceeds, even with these errors.  They go by in a flash
and the executable is still created.  I have to see what I did to make
sed go nuts.


Thanks for your time.  I will report what I find out to finish the thread...

Cheers,

-paul