On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 15:41 +0800, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm recently migrating a OpenACS 3.2.5 website to a Fedora Core 3 > server > My problem was PostgreSQL compilation. > Everytime I run ./configure, the compilation ended with these lines: Are you sure you have all required *-devel packages installed? > (some lines skipped)... > ....................... > checking for preprocessor stringizing operator... yes > checking for signed types... no > checking for volatile... no > checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... sys/time.h > checking for tm_zone in struct tm... no > checking for tzname... no > checking for union semun... no > checking for struct sockaddr_un... no > checking for int timezone... no > checking types of arguments for accept()... configure: error: could > not determine argument types These all indicate you might not have all required *-devel packages installed, or ... that the configure scripts is utterly broken. > > I searched the last line on google and found nothing applicable. > I went to config.log and see these lines: > > (some lines skipped)... > ....................... > configure:3122: gcc -o conftest -O2 conftest.c -lreadline 1>&5 > In file included from configure:3111: > confdefs.h:7: error: syntax error before numeric constant > confdefs.h:9: error: missing terminating " character ... > There are so many lines about syntax error. I would assume them to be follow-ups to earlier issues. The confdefs.h:7 error probably is the origin. As it seems, the configure script inserts invalid code to it. > I think it may be the problem of gcc version I wouldn't exclude this possibility, but this seems rather unlikely to me. > or some library may be missed. This seems more likely to me. > Or is there any other possible cause? Plenty. Most common cause for such issues: Buggy configure scripts. I don't know this package, so I don't know about this configure script's details. Ralf
