"Murray Bryant" <Murray(dot)Bryant(at)harmonygold(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> I am having problems compiling the contrib\tablefunc on freebsd,
> postgresql version 7.4.1
> "/usr/ports/databases/postgresql7/work/postgresql-7.4.1/contrib/tablefun
> c/../../src/Makefile.global", line 38: Missing dependency operator
Looks to me like you are using a non-GNU make. You probably need to say
"gmake" instead of "make". (There is a hack in place to let "make" work
at the top level of the Postgres source tree, but not in every
subdirectory...)
regards, tom lane