Re: WTF

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: admin(at)noksfishes(dot)com(dot)ua, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WTF
Date: 2014-02-03 20:32:08
Message-ID: 17286.1391459528@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> /bin/arch should work on pretty much any Linux distro I know of.
>> Weird environment settings perhaps?

> Uhm. In my machine, a similar Debian version, I don't have /bin/arch.
> I have /usr/bin/arch, but it also spits when passed -k which is what his
> log showed.

Huh, OK, I was just surprised by all the "unknown"s --- but on closer
look, a lot of those are clearly only expected to succeed on specific
platforms.

So I think it comes down to "you didn't install a C compiler". Most
likely there's no development environment at all, and what configure
will complain about next is lack of header files and libraries.

regards, tom lane

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