My apologies, just after I posted this I realised that you've got the -base 
package. I downloaded that and yes, it's missing files. I suggest you grab 
postgresql-8.1.2.tar.gz instead.

Regards, Philip.

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:54 pm, Philip Yarra wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:26 pm, ML mail wrote:
> >   I checked in my source directory of PostgreSQL 8.1.2 and you're right
> > there is no src/tools/thread directory. I'm using the file
> > postgresql-base-8.1.2.tar.gz which I've downloaded from the PostgreSQL
> > main website.
>
> I'd suggest you have a faulty download, or some files have been deleted
> since you unpacked it.
>
> $ wget \
> ftp://ftp.au.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/source/v8.1.2/postgresql-8.1.2.t
>ar.gz [file comes down...]
> $ gunzip -c postgresql-8.1.2.tar.gz | tar tf - | grep 'src\/tools\/thread'
> postgresql-8.1.2/src/tools/thread/
> postgresql-8.1.2/src/tools/thread/Makefile
> postgresql-8.1.2/src/tools/thread/README
> postgresql-8.1.2/src/tools/thread/thread_test.c
>
> > Do I maybe need any other source files ?
>
> No
>
> > Or is that a case where I
> > need to decompress this file with GNU tar and not Solaris tar ?
>
> Solaris tar is fine (it is what I used in the example above). I think your
> best course of action is to re-download the tarball and check that it
> contains the right files.
>
> Regards, Philip.

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