Re: freebsd install

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, David Blood wrote:

> I can't get postgres to install 7.2.1 using ports on Freebsd.  It
> appears to loop through the make file.  Below is the output.  It never
> finishes this loop. Anyone have an idea.  Also where is that variable in
> th src that you have to change to have long column names?
>
> David Blood
>
> creating ./config.status
> cd . && CONFIG_FILES=src/Makefile.global CONFIG_HEADERS= ./config.status
> creating src/Makefile.global
> linking ./src/backend/port/dynloader/freebsd.c to
>
> [rest of log deleted]

I live in a simplistic world, if it ain't broke don't fix it and if you do fix
it do it simply. As a philsophy I sometimes have trouble sticking to it
however, I didn't have any trouble building 7.2.1 on FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE.

You should have the source tarball in ports/distfiles, just untar it to a
suitable place and start with the install instructions in the INSTALL
file. Simple.


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