Обсуждение: 2 problems
Sorry if this is the wrong list; I'm too new to this to tell whether these are general problems or Mac OS X problems, and I don't want to start out by cross-posting ;-) I had 2 minor problems building PostgresQL 7.1 on a freshly-installed Mac OS X (10.0.3). --- 1 --- The first attempt at make install produced the following error: gzip -d -c postgres.tar.gz | (cd /usr/local/bin/pgsql/doc/html && /usr/ bin/tar xf -) tar: Unable to set file uid/gid of index.html <No such file or directory> I looked; index.html was there; I ran make install again and it completed. Is this some weird file-system cache synchronization thing with Mac OS X? Or is it actually a bug in the install script? --- 2 --- Following the short version of instructions at the top of INSTALL, the initdb failed because it didn't have write access in /usr/local/pgsql/. I didn't ever notice if the make install gave an error about failing to set privileges there, so I don't know the actual sequence. Shouldn't adduser postgres come before make install? And either make install set the privileges or be run as user postgresql? Is this a bug in the instructions related to the author having previously had postgres built on his system? Or is it some goofy Mac OS X thing? Anyway, I fixed the privileges and postgres works (well, select * from pg_tables works), so I don't need help fixing it. I had read that 7.1 compiles as distributed on Mac OS X, and found that to not be the case--almost, but not quite. (In addition to fixing these bugs, if they are bugs, it would also be worth linking to a Mac OS X specific page for installation--some place that would cover the other small differences, make instead of gmake, no adduser command...) Scott Ribe scott_ribe@killerbytes.com http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303) 665-7007 voice
Scott Ribe writes: > gzip -d -c postgres.tar.gz | (cd /usr/local/bin/pgsql/doc/html && /usr/ > bin/tar xf -) > tar: Unable to set file uid/gid of index.html <No such file or directory> > > I looked; index.html was there; I ran make install again and it completed. This looks like a deficiency (bug?) in the local tar program. > Following the short version of instructions at the top of INSTALL, the > initdb failed because it didn't have write access in /usr/local/pgsql/. I > didn't ever notice if the make install gave an error about failing to set > privileges there, so I don't know the actual sequence. The database directory location you give to initdb is, in theory, completely unrelated to the location where the program files are installed. Therefore, there are no special permissions set up automatically. The "Short Version" installation instructions sort of assume that you are initially a user that can write to the default install location, and later you change to become the database special user. Well, it is the "Short Version", after all. > I had read that 7.1 compiles as distributed on Mac OS X, and found that > to not be the case--almost, but not quite. That's what we had people report... > (In addition to fixing these > bugs, if they are bugs, it would also be worth linking to a Mac OS X > specific page for installation--some place that would cover the other > small differences, make instead of gmake, no adduser command...) You need to use GNU make. / What do you have instead of adduser? -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter