> On Mac, the recommended thing is to forget about the ossp code and > use "configure --with-uuid=e2fs". Sorry if that wasn't clear enough. > > Ok thanks, I'll try this.
> Reading over your post again, it sounds like you're trying to force-build > contrib/uuid-ossp without having used any of the configure options that > are supposed to enable it. I'm not sure that would ever have worked very > reliably. > > Ok, that makes sense. I had never learned the proper procedure for building extensions, but have had success with going into e.g. contrib/pgcrypto and typing make to build the pgcrypto extension. Since things like that have generally worked for me I didn't learn about the proper flags etc. I'll try some more things and get back to you, thanks for the help. Best, Ryan
