Re: initdb failure with Postgres 8.4.4 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 12/09/2010 03:36 PM, BRUSSER Michael wrote:
> No, we do not use --with-system-tzdata  option.
> I looked at the makefile and at the output of pg_config. We may need to do some cleanup there, but I did not pick any
clues.
> The problem occurs on all our UNIX platforms.
> Is there anything I could do to shed more light on it?
> I can post the output of pg_config if it helps, or try to run initdb with truss or strace.
>

Yes, please show us the pg_config (and please don't top-post).
cheers
andrew

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I tried to build Postgres with minimal options outside of our normal build framework to isolate possible interference,
butgot the same result. 

configure \   --prefix=$prefix  \   --without-readline \   --without-zlib  \   --without-tcl  \   --without-perl  \
--disable-rpath \   2>&1 | tee _configure.log 

- gmake, gmake check, gmake install  -- all clean

- initdb:
initdb  -D  /home/<local_path>/pgdata   -L   /home/<local_path>/share -E UTF8 --locale=C  \-d  2> log2  > log1

log1 ends with line creating template1 database in /home/<local_path>/pgdata/base/1 ...

In log2 I got the same errors as I mentioned earlier: LOG:  could not open directory
"/home/<build-path>/.../share/timezone":No such file or directory  
... ...

Directories timezone and timezonesets  exist in /home/<local_path>/share,  pointed to by the -L option
The local share dir has the same contents as the build share dir.

% pg_config BINDIR = /home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/binDOCDIR =
/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/share/docHTMLDIR= /home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/share/docINCLUDEDIR
=/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/includePKGINCLUDEDIR =
/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/includeINCLUDEDIR-SERVER=
/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/include/serverLIBDIR= /home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/libPKGLIBDIR =
/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/libLOCALEDIR= /home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/share/localeMANDIR =
/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/share/manSHAREDIR= /home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/shareSYSCONFDIR =
/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/etcPGXS=
/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mkCONFIGURE=
'--prefix=/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64''--without-readline' '--without-zlib'CC = gccCPPFLAGS =
-D_GNU_SOURCECFLAGS= -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels
-fno-strict-aliasing-fwrapvCFLAGS_SL = -fpicLDFLAGS = -Wl,--as-needed
-Wl,-rpath,'/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/lib'LDFLAGS_SL= LIBS = -lpgport -lcrypt -ldl -lm VERSION =
PostgreSQL8.4.4 


This is probably not helpful, but just in case
% strings initdb | grep
<build-path>/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/bin/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/share/man/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/share/doc//home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/share/locale/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/lib/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/include/server/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/include/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/etc/home/<build-path>/build/Linux/qe_x86_64/share

Thank you,
Michael.




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