fatal error: postgres.h: No such file or directory

[Vineet-Sharma29]

I had installed nominatim using docker(as given here). However, in order to make changes in current codebase I am trying to install and run code in master branch as given here. On running make command I am getting, following error:-

fatal error: postgres.h: No such file or directory.

Complete error log as follows:-

/srv/nominatim/Nominatim/module/Makefile:11: warning: overriding recipe for target 'install'
/usr/lib/postgresql/13/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk:241: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'install'
/srv/nominatim/Nominatim/module/nominatim.c:1:10: fatal error: postgres.h: No such file or directory
 #include "postgres.h"
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
<builtin>: recipe for target 'nominatim.o' failed
make[3]: *** [nominatim.o] Error 1
module/CMakeFiles/nominatim_lib.dir/build.make:60: recipe for target '/srv/nominatim/Nominatim/module/dummy' failed
make[2]: *** [/srv/nominatim/Nominatim/module/dummy] Error 2
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1114: recipe for target 'module/CMakeFiles/nominatim_lib.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [module/CMakeFiles/nominatim_lib.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:140: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

I have tried to fix it my own by running sudo apt install postgresql-server-dev-10 as suggested in some stackoverflow answers, however it did not work.

[mtmail]

https://github.com/mediagis/nominatim-docker is a separate project, they don't support Nominatim beyond the stable release 3.6 yet. Too many parts of the installation changed, one probably has to change the Dockerfile a lot to make the master branch work.

[Vineet-Sharma29]

I am not using docker image anymore and trying to install code in master branch as per instructions given here, which is giving me the error.

[mtmail]

/usr/lib/postgresql/13/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk:241: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'install'

Cmake is looking for a postgresql.h for postgresql version 13. Do you have postgresql-server-dev-13 installed? Do you see postgresql.h for that version anywhere on the file system? If you have both 12 and 13 installed it might be easier to fully remove 13 first.

[Vineet-Sharma29]

Thanks!!! That solved the error. I uninstalled all versions other than 10 using instructions given here.(care needs to taken while deletion as data is also deleted; in my case I had sql dump of data)