Обсуждение: installation problem

 I got a problem when I try to install postgresql 7.1.3 into a redhat box. I dowloaded postgresql-7.1.3.tar.gz and expand it. Then I follow installation instructions in file INSTALL. I try to install it under my own home directory using the following configure command
      ./configure --prefix=/home/hbwang/pgsql
Everything works well until I execute the following command line
      initdb -r /home/hbwang/pgsql/data -l  /home/hbwang/pgsql/lib
It returns an error saying that
      initdb does not find the file '/home/hbwang/pgsql/lib/local1_template1.bki.source'
I searched directory /home/hbwang/pgsql/lib, there is no file called local1_template1.bki.source
Is the installation instruction wrong? How to get around that problem? I know little about installation of postgresql. Thanks a lot.

Henry

 

Hanbiao Wang <hbwang@CS.UCLA.EDU> writes:
> Everything works well until I execute the following command line
>       initdb -r /home/hbwang/pgsql/data -l  /home/hbwang/pgsql/lib
> It returns an error saying that
>       initdb does not find the file
> '/home/hbwang/pgsql/lib/local1_template1.bki.source'
> I searched directory /home/hbwang/pgsql/lib, there is no file called
> local1_template1.bki.source

I think you're invoking an obsolete version of initdb, not the 7.1
version.  You're certainly doing it in an obsolete fashion.  7.1's
initdb doesn't even accept a -l switch, AFAICS.

            regards, tom lane