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eyreka · 01:26 AM

From previous OpenOSX GRASS GIS CD installation of PostgreSQL--which was giving me problems--I (foolishly!) tracked down 'pgsql' and 'postgresql' which I deleted except for '/opt/local/pgsql' and the file '/System/Library/PHP/DB/pgsql.php' which I've temporarily renamed. I then made new directories '/usr/local/src' and '/usr/local/src/postgres' into which I downloaded and unpacked 'postgresql-7.3.2.tar.gz'.

As per ADC article "PostgreSQL on Mac OS X" on "Internet Developer
Web Development & Mac OS X" I ran 'configure' and 'make' but on running 'make install' I had errors as below:

...

All of PostgreSQL successfully made. Ready to install.
[Eyreka:src/postgres/postgresql-7.3.2] eyreka% make install
make -C doc install
mkdir /usr/local/pgsql
mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/doc
mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/doc/html
make[1]: *** [installdirs] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2

Please help. I have complete record of 'configure' and 'make' if needed.

Arkham_c · Apr 25, 2003, 12:24 PM

It may just be a permissions issue. Make sure you use "sudo" when you do the "make install" after the make.

eyreka · Apr 25, 2003, 02:26 PM

Originally posted by Arkham_c:
It may just be a permissions issue. Make sure you use "sudo" when you do the "make install" after the make.

Thanks--yes, that was my problem!