Re: building from source requires postgres user account

George Wilk wrote:
> I’d like to use my own user account when building postgres from source.
> When I follow directions on Sun’s page:
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5578/6n7lcpcl5?a=view I don’t have
> a problem, but running build under my own account runs into file
> permission issues after the build is done.

Well there is very little info here from you on the actual problem
but... my guess is that you didn't use --prefix to have postgresql
install into a directory structure that you control.

Joshua D. Drake

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> This is an important issue for me, as the postgres build is an integral
> part of a larger build process involving suite of products.  Is there a
> way to configure the account to be used during build?
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> My build.log shows:
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> LOG ############################# END ################################
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> LOG
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> LOG
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> LOG ############################# START ################################
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> LOG
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> LOG Setting permissions
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> LOG
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> LOG ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> ERR cannot set file permissions
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> Thanks in advance,
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> ~george
>


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