Re: building HEAD on macos fails with #error no source of random numbers configured

That will teach me to copy and paste a config from somewhere ...

Thanks

Dave Cramer

On 9 December 2016 at 10:43, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Looking at src/port/pg_strong_random.c this would be a bug in autoconf
>
> It looks more like self-inflicted damage from here:
>
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql/10 --enable-debug --with-python
> > --with-openssl --with-libraries=/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib
> > --with-includes=/usr/local/opt/openssl/include/ --no-create
> --no-recursion
>
> Why are you using either --no-create or --no-recursion? The former
> *definitely* breaks things:
>
> $ ./configure --help | grep create
> -n, --no-create do not create output files
>
> Presumably the proximate cause of that error message is that configure
> hasn't updated pg_config.h from some ancient version thereof, as a
> consequence of this switch.
>
> I'm not sure what --no-recursion does, but I would say that we'd
> consider that unsupported as well.
>
> regards, tom lane
>