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Postgres 7.0.2 compile failed on OpenBSD 2.7

From
Kevin Worcester
Date:
I attempted to compile Postgres 7.0.2 on a computer
with OpenBSD 2.7 (Pentium 233 MHz, 32MB RAM).

The compile failed twice, both times on preproc.c, and
both times the computer completely locked up and
required a hard reset.  No errors, no hard disk
thrashing, just a dead OpenBSD box. I'm curious if anyone
else has had a similar experience, or has a possible
fix.

I will only be using Postgres from perl (DBI) and
the command line utilities.  Will I need the
src/interfaces/ecpg branch of the source?

I'm hesitant to attempt another compile of any version
because this isn't my computer and I've already
crashed it twice.

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

- Kevin Worcester
  kworces@surveyor.com
  kworces@earthlink.net

--
Kevin Worcester
Software Engineer
Surveyor Corporation

Re: Postgres 7.0.2 compile failed on OpenBSD 2.7

From
The Hermit Hacker
Date:
sounds like a purely hardware issue ... my first thought would be are the
hard drive(s) lights on solid?

On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Kevin Worcester wrote:

> I attempted to compile Postgres 7.0.2 on a computer
> with OpenBSD 2.7 (Pentium 233 MHz, 32MB RAM).
>
> The compile failed twice, both times on preproc.c, and
> both times the computer completely locked up and
> required a hard reset.  No errors, no hard disk
> thrashing, just a dead OpenBSD box. I'm curious if anyone
> else has had a similar experience, or has a possible
> fix.
>
> I will only be using Postgres from perl (DBI) and
> the command line utilities.  Will I need the
> src/interfaces/ecpg branch of the source?
>
> I'm hesitant to attempt another compile of any version
> because this isn't my computer and I've already
> crashed it twice.
>
> Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> - Kevin Worcester
>   kworces@surveyor.com
>   kworces@earthlink.net
>
> --
> Kevin Worcester
> Software Engineer
> Surveyor Corporation
>

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org

Re: Postgres 7.0.2 compile failed on OpenBSD 2.7

From
Thomas Lockhart
Date:
> Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

I'm guessing that you are running out of memory and swap space on the
compilation, but I don't know for sure. Or possibly you have some bad
memory. You shouldn't otherwise be able to crash your machine from a
user process.

Anyway, you might try shutting down X11 (if you are running it), and in
general try to strip the machine bare before doing the compilation. You
might look for a package (port?) to install instead.

                    - Thomas