Re: BUG #4661: Installation

Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 12:11 +0000, Thomas Waelde wrote:
>> i got the following error:
>>
>> checking test program... failed
>> configure: error:
>> Could not execute a simple test program.  This may be a problem
>> related to locating shared libraries.  Check the file 'config.log'
>> for the exact reason.
>
> Is libc6-dev (or such) installed on your Ubuntu box?

What you really want to get a basic build environment is:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

To obtain all required libraries etc for building a particular app, if
Ubuntu happens to package that app, you can just run:

sudo apt-get build-dep postgresql

In most cases Ubuntu builds the most complete and generic configuration
of the app so that'll get you what you need.

--
Craig Ringer