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Subject: Postgres compilation instructions do not work on modern debian or ubuntu
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 03:10:37 +0000
Message-ID: <170399223795.1876501.12582889009268665829@wrigleys.postgresql.org> (raw)
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Hello, I Hope you've enjoyed a festive period.
Thanks for all your hard work, postgres is amazing. Small suggestion for
installation instructions on debian / ubuntu boxes:
apt install -yqq build-essential libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev flex bison
libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libssl-dev libxml2-utils xsltproc ccache git
libicu-dev pkg-config
works, what is listed misses git, libicu-dev and pkg-config
git may be optional for those downloading from a tarball, but something to
untar would then be required, as would gzip most-likely.
Even with the above, make world and make world-bin and make check, do not
succeed on arm64, so I've no idea if the build is reporting success, but
silently failing (I get return code zero, so it should pass a compile in
CI)
For testing this, I use docker as it's fast-enough to burn down the world
and check my instructions work (see below):
----
Compiling postgres 16
docker run --rm -it ubuntu:22.04
Or
docker run --rm -it debian
Then within container install system-build-dependencies
apt update -yqq
apt install -yqq build-essential libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev flex bison
libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libssl-dev libxml2-utils xsltproc ccache git
libicu-dev pkg-config
Now time to clone Postgres
git clone https://github.com/postgres/postgres.git
cd postgres
git checkout REL_16_1
git checkout -b release/16.1
Now we can build Postgres
./configure
make -j4
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