Re: Problem Installing PostgreSQL 7.0.3 on Windows NT 4.0

Dmitriy,

You will need to apply the attached patch before the 7.0.3 regression
tests will run under Cygwin. The following is the instructions to apply
the patch:

$ cd postgresql-7.0.3/src/test/regress
$ # save run_check.patch to the current directory
$ patch <run_check.patch

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 02:57:23PM -0700, Dmitriy Shekhel wrote:
> Kevin Lo specified at http://people.freebsd.org/~kevlo/postgres/portNT.html
>
> I issued the make runcheck command to run a parallel regression test but got
> the following error:
>
> MULTIBYTE=;export MULTIBYTE; \
> ./run_check.sh i686-pc-cygwin
> =============== Removing old ./tmp_check directory ... ================
> =============== Create ./tmp_check directory ================
> =============== Installing new build into ./tmp_check ================
> gmake: not found

To resolve the above, perform the following before executing make runcheck:

$ export MAKE=make

> ERROR: Check installation failed - cannot continue
> Please examine
> /usr/src/postgresql-7.0.3/src/test/regress/tmp_check/log/install.log for the
> reason.
>
> make: *** [runcheck] Error 2
>
> Strangely enough install.log file was not generated, so I couldn't check that
> file.

Hmmm...

> I'm not sure how to set/change the owner of the db system. If I just
> run initdb anyway I get:
>
> basename: too many arguments
> Try `basename --help' for more information.

This seems to imply that $0 contains unquoted spaces.

> /cygdrive/c/PostgreSQL: not found

Not sure about this one.

> Could not determine current user name. You are really hosed.

You either do not have an /etc/passwd file or it does not contain a
proper entry for the current user. Use the following:

$ mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd

or

$ mkpasswd -d >/etc/passwd

to generate a valid passwd file for a workgroup or domain environment,
respectively.

After all of this, you may find that the regression tests hang due to
postmaster aborting. See the following for more details:

http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-ports/2000-12/msg00046.html

Jason

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