Re: BUG #17178: probes.h: No such file or directory when running 'make install'

Aha, never mind... I am using the Rust "coreutils" and this appears to be
an incompatibility between the GNU "cp" tool and the Rust cp tool. While
concerning I don't think that this is Postgres's fault.

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 9:57 PM PG Bug reporting form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>
wrote:

> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
> Bug reference: 17178
> Logged by: Kevin Burke
> Email address: kevin(at)meter(dot)com
> PostgreSQL version: 14beta3
> Operating system: MacOS Catalina 10.15.7
> Description:
>
> I am compiling Postgres from commit
> c95ede41b8d47b21d58702fbc519e720f41fdaf1
> on master. I am running "gmake clean && ./configure --prefix=$HOME/pq &&
> gmake && gmake install" (gmake being GNU make). I receive the following
> error on either the "gmake install" or "gmake check" steps:
>
> /Users/kevin/local/coreutils/bin/install -c -m 644 utils/fmgrprotos.h
> '/Users/kevin/pq/include/postgresql/server/utils'
> cp ./*.h '/Users/kevin/pq/include/postgresql/server'/
> for dir in access bootstrap catalog commands common datatype executor
> fe_utils foreign jit lib libpq mb nodes optimizer parser partitioning
> postmaster regex replication rewrite statistics storage tcop snowball
> snowball/libstemmer tsearch tsearch/dicts utils port port/atomics
> port/win32
> port/win32_msvc port/win32_msvc/sys port/win32/arpa port/win32/netinet
> port/win32/sys portability; do \
> cp ./$dir/*.h '/Users/kevin/pq/include/postgresql/server'/$dir/ || exit;
> \
> done
> cp: '../../../src/backend/utils/probes.h' ->
> '/Users/kevin/pq/include/postgresql/server/utils/probes.h': No such file or
> directory (os error 2)
> gmake[2]: *** [Makefile:49: install] Error 1
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory
> '/Users/kevin/src/github.com/postgres/postgres/src/include'
> gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:42: install-include-recurse] Error 2
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
> '/Users/kevin/src/github.com/postgres/postgres/src'
> gmake: *** [GNUmakefile:11: install-src-recurse] Error 2
>
> Here are the copies of files named "probes.h" on my local filesystem, from
> the git root:
>
> $ find . -name probes.h
> ./local/include/server/utils/probes.h
> ./src/include/utils/probes.h
> ./src/backend/utils/probes.h
>
> There are lots of .h files in
> /Users/kevin/pq/include/postgresql/server/utils but probes.h is not one of
> them.
>
>