The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 2669
Logged by: Bill Hernandez
Email address: pgsql@mac-specialist.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.1.4
Operating system: OS X 10.4.7
Description: The config dir was empty -> cannot find install-sh or
install.sh in config ./config
Details:

server-apache:/usr/local/src/postgresql-8.1.4 username$ ./configure
--prefix=/usr/local/pgsql/
configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in config ./config

I copied the contents of the config dir from the v8.0.3 source that I still
had in my /src folder, and tried running ./confure with that. configure
seemed to work fine but then I got the following

server-apache:/usr/local/src/postgresql-8.1.4 username$ make
make -C doc all
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
make: *** [all] Error 2

I downloaded
-rw-r--r-- 1 (?) pgsql 11609501 May 22 00:38
postgresql-8.1.4.tar.bz2

server-apache:/usr/local/src/postgresql-8.1.4 username$ cd config
server-apache:/usr/local/src/postgresql-8.1.4/config username$ ls -ls
THE CONFIG DIR WAS EMPTY, I was not able to install

Thank You Very Much...

Bill Hernandez
(972) 612-2877
Plano, Texas

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"Bill Hernandez" <pgsql@mac-specialist.com> writes:
> server-apache:/usr/local/src/postgresql-8.1.4 username$ ./configure
> --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql/
> configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in config ./config

Those files should certainly be there. Perhaps you didn't download a
full source tree?

regards, tom lane

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