Re: pgsql-novice-request@postgresql.org

Nils Zierath wrote:
> hi all,
> I downloaded postgresql-base-8.1.3 and tried to compile that on
 > Ubuntu 5.10. When I run "./configure" I get the following error:
[... /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory ...]
> I tried that with ./configure CC=/usr/bin/gcc (v4.0.2) as shown
 > above and ./configure CC=/usr/bin/gpp (v2.24). glibc is v2.3.5
 > for Ubuntu ("/lib/libc-2.3.5.so").
>
> the file "crt1.o" doesn't exist anywhere else on my machine
 > either. Any guesses?

You need to install libc6-dev and the development packages of the other
libraries in use (zlib1g-dev, libreadline5-dev, libncurses5-dev).

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