On Saturday 16 January 2010 14:02:16 Tom Lane wrote: > "Robert Treat" <xzi...@users.sourceforge.net> writes: > > I added --disable-largefile to configure after getting the following > > error during "make install" > > > > access/transam/xlog.o: In function `XLogFileClose': > > /usr/local/src/postgresql-8.4.2/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c:2610: > > undefined reference to `posix_fadvise64' > > Hmm, that looks like platform breakage that you ought to report to > Slackware. We could probably make the configure test for posix_fadvise > a little tighter, but not having a largefile variant of it doesn't seem > like an expected situation. >
Well, the box is old, and probably not as patched as it should be, so that probably doesn't help. > > copying template1 to template0 ... FATAL: could not stat file > > "base/1/ON": No such file or directory > > Did you "make distclean" to be sure you had a clean start after changing > the largefile setting? I'm not sure what all that affects, but a build > that's only partially "largefile" would probably have some weird issues. > Blech. Didn't think about that, as I wasn't building from $scm, but I just wiped my source tree away, blew the tarball back open, and did the whole dance again, and now initdb works fine, so yes, looks like some leftovers from a previous configure/make attempt before disabling fadvise. Nice catch, sorry for the noise. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
