Tom Lane wrote:
"Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)" <andy.shellam-lists@mailnetwork.co.uk> writes:
FYI: Reports on Google are wrong - they say that you need to use "gmake"
to build the PostgreSQL server source. You don't.
I can assure you that you need GNU make to build any part of Postgres.
Perhaps what you're dealing with there is that "/usr/bin/make" is some
particularly ancient release of GNU make that has most but not quite all
of the features we depend on? "make -v" might prove informative.
Not particularly!! Don't know what it is but it doesn't _appear_ to be GNU. According to "man make" it is a "FreeBSD General Command."
I can tell you that "./configure && make && make install" works and builds a working Postgres server just fine, it's just the contribs it doesn't build.
[root@byron ~]# make -v
make: no target to make.
[root@byron ~]# /usr/bin/make -v
make: no target to make.
[root@byron ~]# /usr/local/bin/make -v
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
This program built for i386-unknown-freebsd6.1
[root@byron ~]#
Confusion reigns.