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From: Ibrahim Shaame <[email protected]>
To: Erik Wienhold <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Unable to compile postgresql-18.1
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:49:07 +0300
Message-ID: <CAJOWwD4d0SWVQiGa61o85AQ9o1F4PtGEBK7c=bHVNQYOCKGjtQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <CAJOWwD4dUe-zRw2kd_jJgy5m1Aa8mGNKKwn-_DywSwUDt5ik4g@mail.gmail.com>
	<[email protected]>

Hello Erik,
Thank you for the response. As for LIBRARY_PATH, I have always manually
compiled postgresql and I don't explicitly mention the LIBRARY_PATH
directory. That's why I am surprised why this time with this subversion
doesn't work just as it worked in the last version.

Thanks
Ibrahim

On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 7:29 PM Erik Wienhold <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2026-01-02 19:23 +0100, Ibrahim Shaame wrote:
> > I have tried to compile from source postgresql-18.1 but it fails and I
> get
> > the following error:
> >
> > gcc: fatal error: cannot read spec file ‘./specs’: Is a directory
> > compilation terminated.
> > make[2]: *** [<builtin>: isolationtester.o] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory
> > '/data/dwnlds/dwnld_slack/postgresql-18.1/src/test/isolation'
> > make[1]: *** [Makefile:42: all-test/isolation-recurse] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory '/data/dwnlds/dwnld_slack/postgresql-18.1/src'
> > make: *** [GNUmakefile:11: all-src-recurse] Error 2
> >
> > Last compilation of postgresql-18.0 worked perfectly without issue and on
> > the same laptop
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > I am on : Slackware64 Linux 15.0 (Current)
> > Acer E5-771 laptop
>
> What are exact build commands you've executed?
>
> Could be that LIBRARY_PATH contains an empty path.  For example, I can
> reproduce it with:
>
>         export LIBRARY_PATH=
>         make clean world-bin
>
> --
> Erik Wienhold
>

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