Can't you just do:

emerge slony1

?

I run gentoo, and that is what I did. Works just fine.
I did have to unmask slony1 in
/etc/portage/package.keywords.

Ujwal

--- Tim Allen <tim at proximity.com.au> wrote:

> I'm trying to compile slony 1.1.0, and not getting
> very far.
> 
> Platform summary: x86, gentoo linux, postgresql
> 8.0.3, gcc 3.2.2
> 
> The first problem is that there is no such type as
> "int64", as the 
> following compile failures in src/slon show:
> 
> gcc -g -O2 -pthread -I../.. -I/home/tim/pg/include/ 
> -I/home/tim/pg/include/
> -I/home/tim/pg/include/postgresql/server/  -c -o 
> slon.o slon.c
> In file included from slon.h:18,
>                   from slon.c:30:
> misc.h:29: parse error before "int64"
> In file included from slon.c:30:
> slon.h:95: parse error before "int64"
> slon.h:95: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or
> union
> slon.h:111: parse error before '}' token
> 
> and many more just like them.
> 
> I kludged my way past that one with a
> typedef long long int64;
> in misc.h, but the next set of errors look a bit
> harder to fix simply:
> 
> gcc -g -O2 -pthread -I../.. -I/home/tim/pg/include/ 
> -I/home/tim/pg/include/
> -I/home/tim/pg/include/postgresql/server/  -c -o 
> slon.o slon.c
> In file included from slon.c:31:
> confoptions.h:103: initializer element is not
> constant
> confoptions.h:103: (near initialization for 
> `ConfigureNamesInt[0].gen.short_desc')
> confoptions.h:104: initializer element is not
> constant
> confoptions.h:104: (near initialization for 
> `ConfigureNamesInt[0].gen.long_desc')
> confoptions.h:106: initializer element is not
> constant
> confoptions.h:106: (near initialization for
> `ConfigureNamesInt[0].gen')
> confoptions.h:111: initializer element is not
> constant
> confoptions.h:111: (near initialization for
> `ConfigureNamesInt[0]')
> 
> and many more lines like these.
> 
> I've browsed the mailing list archives, expecting to
> see them 
> overflowing with similar reports, but haven't seen
> any at all, so 
> presumably there is something relatively unusual in
> my installation. Any 
> ideas as to what it might be?
> 
> Tim
> 
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