Обсуждение: make check help!

 hello all,

 We are just starting to use postgresql in my shop and I am attempting to
 compile and install this. I have installed all the nessacary packages that
 postgresql depends on. I did my configure and my make(gmake). Everything
 finished correctly. I am now trying to test the build before I go and install
 it. According to the documentation all I need to do is "make check" and this
 should do it. Well I keep getting this error in initdb. One thing I need to
 mention is that I am installing postgresql into it's own directory. I should
 not have to install the package before I test it correct?

 Thanks in advance for any help.

 >> initdb.log
 The program 'postgres' is needed by initdb but was not found in
 the directory '/i/bls/tools/sparc-SunOS-5.8/apps/postgresql-7.2/bin'.  Check your installation.
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John Gibson <jgibson@lexmark.com> writes:
>  it. According to the documentation all I need to do is "make check" and this
>  should do it. Well I keep getting this error in initdb. One thing I need to
>  mention is that I am installing postgresql into it's own directory. I should
>  not have to install the package before I test it correct?

No, you shouldn't ... the initdb script should preferentially find
postgres in the directory it itself is invoked from, which should be
in the temporary installation built by pg_regress.  The fact that it's
failing to do so (and instead looking into where the final installation
will be) suggests some portability glitch in one or the other of these
scripts.  If you can figure out what's going wrong we'd be much obliged.
See the "self_path" manipulations in initdb.

            regards, tom lane