Re: Runtime Problems

Richard Luckhurst wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Just to see if it was me having problems building Postgresql I just
> downloaded
> the binary from last night and tried to install and run that. I get all the
> same errors
> I have been getting with my build. Before trying the downloaded binary I
> removed any
> other development versions from my PC. It doesn't seem to matter what I put
> after
> the initdb command I still get the same error.
>
> So even with a precompiled binary I still get
>
> initdb -D c:\pgsql\data -W --lc-collate=C
> Bad command or file name
> fgets failure: No error
> Bad command or file name
> fgets failure: No error
> The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in
> the directory "c:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/bin". Check your installation

OK, is 'initdb' in c:/msys/1.0/local/pgsql/bin or somewhere else?  Where
are you downloading this binary?  Is it possible it isn't getting
updated nightly?

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