Re: BUG #4661: Installation

Hello Greg, Hello Devrim,

i will follow zour hints and answer back to you on it.
I prefer to install SW like this via the source-code.

Nevertheless thanks a lot
Thomas


Craig Ringer schrieb:
> 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
>