BUG #1476: on Xeon 2.8 can't instaling source

Sinisa Zivanovic wrote:

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 1476
Logged by: Sinisa Zivanovic
Email address: pcbiro@yahoo.com
PostgreSQL version: 7.3.2
Operating system: SuSE 8.2
Description: on Xeon 2.8 can't instaling source
Details:

on Xeon 2.8
./configure is ok
gmake don know what to do - compaling all day !
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on AMD K8 3.0 is ok!

Buggy compiler? It should compile in 1-3 minutes on that machine.

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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

Sinisa Zivanovic wrote:

gmake don know what to do - compaling all day !

Buggy compiler? It should compile in 1-3 minutes on that machine.

System clock set way in the past?

regards, tom lane

Bruce Momjian wrote:

Sinisa Zivanovic wrote:

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 1476
Logged by: Sinisa Zivanovic
Email address: pcbiro@yahoo.com
PostgreSQL version: 7.3.2
Operating system: SuSE 8.2
Description: on Xeon 2.8 can't instaling source
Details:

on Xeon 2.8
./configure is ok
gmake don know what to do - compaling all day !
---------------------
on AMD K8 3.0 is ok!

Buggy compiler? It should compile in 1-3 minutes on that machine.

If I understand you problem right, the solution is fairly simple.
Check your system date. I remeber seeing configure running for ever on
some operating system when you change the system date to 1970 or so (I
think tar xvfz would issue a warning in this case anyway).

Maybe this helps.

Regards,

Hans