I finally got Bison 1.875 installed on the alpha here, and tried running regression tests:
============== removing existing temp installation ============== ============== creating temporary installation ============== ============== initializing database system ============== ============== starting postmaster ============== running on port 65432 with pid 2974 ============== creating database "regression" ============== CREATE DATABASE ALTER DATABASE ============== dropping regression test user accounts ============== ============== installing PL/pgSQL ============== createlang: language installation failed: ERROR: stat failed on file '/home/chriskl/pgsql-temp/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/install//home/chriskl /local/lib/postgresql/plpgsql': No such file or directory pg_regress: createlang failed gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/chriskl/pgsql-temp/src/test/regress' gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chriskl/pgsql-temp/src/test' bash-2.03$ ============================================================ bash-2.03$ more ./src/test/regress/log/initdb.log Running with noclean mode on. Mistakes will not be cleaned up. The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "chriskl". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized with locale C. creating directory /home/chriskl/pgsql-temp/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data... ok creating directory /home/chriskl/pgsql-temp/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/base... ok creating directory /home/chriskl/pgsql-temp/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/global... ok creating directory /home/chriskl/pgsql-temp/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/pg_xlog... ok creating directory /home/chriskl/pgsql-temp/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/pg_clog... ok creating template1 database in /home/chriskl/pgsql-temp/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data/base/1... ok creating configuration files... ok initializing pg_shadow... ok enabling unlimited row size for system tables... ok initializing pg_depend... ok creating system views... ok loading pg_description... ok creating conversions... ok setting privileges on built-in objects... ok creating information schema... ok vacuuming database template1... ok copying template1 to template0... ok Success. You can now start the database server using: /home/chriskl/pgsql-temp/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/install//home/chriskl/ local/bin/postmaster -D /home/chriskl/pgsql-temp/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data or /home/chriskl/pgsql-temp/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/install//home/chriskl/ local/bin/pg_ctl -D /home/chriskl/pgsql-temp/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/data -l logfile start bash-2.03$ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
