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

On 12/09/2016 05:43 PM, Tom Lane 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.

Interesting. Running config.status adds those --no-create --no-recursion
flags automatically. You can see them in the command-line at the top of
config.log, too. I never bothered to check what they do...

- Heikki