Hm, it turns out, the super source tarball works fine for me. ./monetdb-install.sh --prefix=~/MonetDB-Oct2010 --enable-xquery --enable-optimise From a practical viewpoint my compiling problem is solved. I am still unable to compile from mercurial sources (even the most recent Oct2010 branch). My problem is solved with the version compiled from the tarball, but I would be happy to try out any changes or provide additional information about my setup if you want. I'm running an up-to-date Debian squeeze (testing) $ uname -a Linux tsalmoth 2.6.36 #1 SMP Tue Oct 26 19:36:45 EDT 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ gcc --version gcc (Debian 4.4.5-6) 4.4.5 $ bison --version bison (GNU Bison) 2.4.1 $ flex --version flex 2.5.35 parent: 38294:557404a473ad tip Avoid command [ ... ] in configure, use command test ... instead. branch: Oct2010 commit: (clean) update: (current) Good Day, Dean On 11/18/2010 03:44 AM, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
I have not (yet?) been able to reproduce your problem. Obviously, I don't have it when building a release (Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Windows) nor do we see this on our testing platforms (Solaris, Darwin).
So my questions, which OS (distribution) are you using? What versions of gcc, bison and flex are you using?
Could you use any of the pre-built versions?
Is there any particular reason why you're using the default branch and not the current release branch Oct2010? There are differences between the branches for sure, but I don't think they should have any big impact. The most relevant change is in the building process which is in a bit of a flux on the default branch (although we can still build on Unix like systems).