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From: Erik Wienhold <[email protected]>
To: alexander al (leiden) <[email protected]>
Cc: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Building and installing pg_proctab
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:28:12 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On 2026-01-20 11:01 +0100, alexander al (leiden) wrote:
> picture:
> i've got ubuntu 24.04 with postgresql 18 on it. Now I want to install
> pg_proctab on it for monitoring reasons.
> 
> i downloaded it from
> 
> https://gitlab.com/pg_proctab/pg_proctab/
> 
> and i tried to make it.
> 
> the docs says
> 
> make
> make install
> etc.
> 
> but when i do make in the root of pg_proctab i get the error
> 
> "Makefile:29: /contrib/contrib-global.mk: No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target '/contrib/contrib-global.mk'.  Stop."

Judging by the Makefile logic, I think you need to set USE_PGXS=1.
Without that, the Makefile expects the code to be under Postgres'
contrib tree.

-- 
Erik Wienhold





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