Re: Dumb Question

Leland V. Lammert writes:

> 1) Install Postgresql-7.0.3.tgz

> 2) Configure & make - fail at making 'interfaces'

Our makefiles don't have a target called 'interfaces'.  There's a
directory called interfaces, so you have to be more particular.

> 3) Install Postgresql-7-003-base.tgz (this seemed to include util/init - I
> assume this is initdb??)

If you did 1) you don't need this.  The ftp server has a file the
explains the dist split.

> 4) Configure and make - again fail at making 'interfaces'
>
> 5) I then tried to follow the FAQ to initialize the database structure, ..
> but found that there was no 'initdb' in the bin directory.

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