Обсуждение: errcodes.h and others not generated when compiling 13.6 on M1 Mac

On Wed, 2022-04-27 at 10:05 +1000, Sam Kidman wrote:
> I recently upgraded one of our applications to use postgres 13.6. When I try to compile
> from a source checkout or by running asdf install (our version manager which also compiles 13.6)
> I get the same error message:
> 
> ../../src/include/utils/elog.h:71:10: fatal error: 'utils/errcodes.h' file not found
> 
> After digging around in the source it looks like it's supposed to be generated. I can't
> figure out why this isn't working on my machine though. It seems to happen on any M1 mac
> (my colleagues can reproduce it)
> 
> Any help on how to fix or debug this further would be appreciated.

I'd say that you didn't ./configure the PostgreSQL source.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
-- 
Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com

Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> writes:
> On Wed, 2022-04-27 at 10:05 +1000, Sam Kidman wrote:
>> I recently upgraded one of our applications to use postgres 13.6. When I try to compile
>> from a source checkout or by running asdf install (our version manager which also compiles 13.6)
>> I get the same error message:
>>
>> ../../src/include/utils/elog.h:71:10: fatal error: 'utils/errcodes.h' file not found

> I'd say that you didn't ./configure the PostgreSQL source.

No, we dealt with that case long ago: you get

$ make
You need to run the 'configure' program first. See the file
'README.git' for installation instructions, or visit:
<https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/installation.html>
make: *** [all] Error 1

Anyway, 13.6 certainly builds on my M1 laptop, as well as my
M1 buildfarm animal [1], so it's not a case of "it's completely
broken".  But you need the appropriate prerequisites, eg
an Xcode installation [2].  I wonder exactly what configure
options the OP is using, and what's installed on his Mac
beyond bare macOS.

            regards, tom lane

[1] https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_history.pl?nm=sifaka&br=REL_13_STABLE
[2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/installation-platform-notes.html#INSTALLATION-NOTES-MACOS

Sam Kidman <sam@fresho.com> writes:
> Ok, so apparently it's something wrong with our environments? Is it
> possible something is failing silently? Any tips for how to troubleshoot?

Apparently so, but it's not very clear what.  You didn't answer as to
what your build environment is, eg do you have any MacPorts or Homebrew
packages in play.  The missing files are supposed to be generated by
Perl scripts, so I'm wondering if you have a broken Perl installation.
Apple's standard Perl works fine for this, which is why I'm suspicious
that you've got some other Perl installed that for some reason is
less fine.

> BTW I'm not doing anything special when compiling, just git checkout
> REL_13_6, ./configure, ./make (unless I am doing something wrong there?)

That's about what you need, yes.

> Also the README.md makes mention of an INSTALL file that contains
> instructions about prerequisites for compilation but I couldn't find it in
> the repository.

?? There's no README.md in our git tree.  There's no INSTALL there
either, because it's a generated file.  But it's just a flat text
version of the same installation instructions I pointed you to before:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/installation.html

            regards, tom lane

Sam Kidman <sam@fresho.com> writes:
> So for some reason that submake-generated-headers target isn't getting
> called for us.

Hmph.  What "make" version are you using exactly?  Are you using
any nondefault make options?  Are you invoking our Makefile from
some make script of your own?  (There are some hacks involving
toplevel vs not-top-level Makefiles that you might be falling
foul of.)

            regards, tom lane

Sam Kidman <sam@fresho.com> writes:
>> Are you using any nondefault make options?  Are you invoking our Makefile
>> from some make script of your own?

> This all came about because we use asdf as a version manager which compiles
> the versions of various programs you want to use. There's potentially a
> problem with the asdf plugin for postgres which I'd like to fix. I couldn't
> make head nor tails of the problem with asdf, so I cloned the source and
> started trying to compile it myself. The error I get when I compile it
> myself and when asdf does it are the same (the problem with header files
> not being generated)

Our manual recommends doing it this way if you invoke PG's build from
an upper-level makefile:

build-postgresql:
        $(MAKE) -C postgresql MAKELEVEL=0 all

I don't know anything about asdf, but if it uses make scripts then a
likely explanation for the problem is lack of the "MAKELEVEL=0" bit.

            regards, tom lane