Forum OpenACS Q&A: PostgreSQL 7.1.3 installation problem on FC3

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:

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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


I searched the last line on google and found nothing applicable.
I went to config.log and see these lines:

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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
configure: failed program was:
#line 3111 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
char readline();

int main() {
readline()
; return 0; }
configure:3122: gcc -o conftest -O2     conftest.c -ledit -ltermcap  1>&5
In file included from configure:3111:
confdefs.h:7: error: syntax error before numeric constant
confdefs.h:9: error: missing terminating " character
configure: failed program was:
#line 3111 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
char readline();

int main() {
readline()
; return 0; }
configure:3122: gcc -o conftest -O2     conftest.c -lreadline -lncurses  1>&5
In file included from configure:3111:
confdefs.h:7: error: syntax error before numeric constant
confdefs.h:9: error: missing terminating " character
configure: failed program was:
#line 3111 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
char readline();

int main() {
readline()
; return 0; }
(some more similar sections for 3122 skipped)...
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configure:3149: checking for library containing using_history
configure:3167: gcc -o conftest -O2     conftest.c  1>&5
In file included from configure:3156:
confdefs.h:7: error: syntax error before numeric constant
confdefs.h:9: error: missing terminating " character
configure: failed program was:
#line 3156 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
char using_history();

int main() {
using_history()
; return 0; }
configure:3189: gcc -o conftest -O2     conftest.c -lhistory   1>&5
In file included from configure:3178:
confdefs.h:7: error: syntax error before numeric constant
confdefs.h:9: error: missing terminating " character
configure: failed program was:
#line 3178 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
char using_history();

int main() {
using_history()
; return 0; }
(many more syntax error. I skipped)...
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There are so many lines about syntax error.
I think it may be the problem of gcc version or some library may be missed.
What can I do? Or is there any other possible cause?

Thanks a lot


Koala Yeung