Re: contrib compilation probs

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: contrib compilation probs
Date: 2003-08-01 09:40:50
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.56.0308011138460.1793@krusty.credativ.de
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Tom Lane writes:

> > gcc -pipe -O -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -fpic -DPI
> > C -I. -I. -I./snowball -I./ispell -I./wordparser -I../../src/include -c -o
> > snowball/english_stem.o snowball/english_stem.c -MMD
> > cp: snowball/english_stem.d: No such file or directory
> > gmake[1]: *** [snowball/english_stem.o] Error 1
>
> No idea about this; it doesn't happen here. Anyone?

These files are created when --enable-depend is on. The problem appears
to be that the Makefile is trying to create files in a directory not its
own. You cannot do that; it creates all kinds of problems in complex
installation setups.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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