Risking to report a dup (by being on digest), I report that I can't compile postgres from just CVS-checked out sources:
gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations pg_dump.o common.o pg_dump_sort.o pg_backup_archiver.o pg_backup_db.o pg_backup_custom.o pg_backup_files.o pg_backup_null.o pg_backup_tar.o dumputils.o exec.o ../../../src/backend/parser/keywords.o -L../../../src/interfaces/libpq -lpq -L../../../src/port -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/pgsql/lib -lpgport -lz -lreadline -ltermcap -lcrypt -lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm -lbsd -o pg_dump pg_backup_db.o(.text+0x9f): In function `_check_database_version': : undefined reference to `PQparameterStatus' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [pg_dump] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/sam/pg/pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/sam/pg/pgsql/src/bin' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/sam/pg/pgsql/src' make: *** [all] Error 2 -- Serguei A. Mokhov | /~\ The ASCII Computer Science Department | \ / Ribbon Campaign Concordia University | X Against HTML Montreal, Quebec, Canada | / \ Email! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings