> But, at one point the compilation procedure stopped, and ended with
> a series of error messages like:
> gmake[3]: Entering directory
> `/usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-6.5.3/src/backend/storage/buffer'
> gmake[3]: *** No rule to make target `page/SUBSYS.o'. Stop.
> What am I missing on my present installation of Linux?
> I suspect it is a missing object file, or a missing header file, but
> which one(s)?

Not sure. The failure happened earlier, when a component of
page/SUBSYS.o was being constructed.

You will have to do a "make clean" and then look carefully at the make
results *before* the error message that you have already noticed.

> I have Mandrake Linux 7.0, installed on a Pentium 200 MHz, 64 MB
> ram.

I'm running that too, with no problems.

Good luck.

                       - Thomas

-- 
Thomas Lockhart				lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California

Mon, 01 May 2000 11:08:50 +0000
Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Re: gmake[3]: *** No rule to make target page/SUBSYS.o
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