I wrote:
> "Robert Treat" <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>> I added --disable-largefile to configure after getting the following error
>> during "make install"
>> access/transam/xlog.o: In function `XLogFileClose':
>> /usr/local/src/postgresql-8.4.2/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c:2610:
>> undefined reference to `posix_fadvise64'
> Hmm, that looks like platform breakage that you ought to report to
> Slackware. We could probably make the configure test for posix_fadvise
> a little tighter, but not having a largefile variant of it doesn't seem
> like an expected situation.
I've committed some changes that I think should cause configure to
decide that posix_fadvise() isn't available in situations like this.
Would you be willing to test that?
>> copying template1 to template0 ... FATAL: could not stat file "base/1/ON":
>> No such file or directory
This bit still seems pretty weird ...
regards, tom lane