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From: Michael C Tiernan <mtiernan@genuity.com>
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Subject: Building 7.1.2 issue.
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:18:40 -0400
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I've a minor issue with building 7.1.[12] and I was wondering if anyone's
addressed it yet (that anyone knows of...)

>       The problem at hand is that you must be at the top of the source
>       tree to build 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 and you cannot do it from a
>       "staging" directory separate from it.  This works for MOST of
>       the package but not for a small bit of it.
> 
>       Example.
>       /home/pgsql> ls
>       postgresql-7.1.2.tar.gz
>       postgresql-7.1.2/
>       Stage/
> 
>       To build the code, you must be in postgresql-7.1.2 and you
>       cannot be in Stage.

Thanks for all your time.