Re: compilation error

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Daniel A. Melo wrote:

> Im getting compilation errors.
>
> The configure could not find some headers files (limits.h, netdb.h,
> pwd.h...) .
> i searched for them and they are in
> "/usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/linux" and " /usr/include"

Are you saying that there is only 1 of each of those files,
distributed across the 2 different directory trees, or that
both directory trees contain files with those names?

I believe I've seen mention that application programs (like
PostgreSQL) should NOT be using kernel headers. Apparently
that is going to be made more difficult in the 2.4.x series.

> ive tryed:
>
> ./configure --prefix="/usr/local/pgsql" --with-perl --with-odbc
> --with-includes="/usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/linux /usr/include"

This doesn't quite look right (the includes directive). I would
expect something like a PATH statement
/usr/src/linux-2.2.17/include/linux:/usr/include
or
--with-includes=/usr/src/linux.... --with-includes=/usr/include
But, since /usr/include should always be part of the includes
path, you shouldn't need to give this to the configure command.
It is for additional includes (I believe).

Gord

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