Richard Cook x261 wrote: > Bruce, > > My apologies. The file I worked with was from the postgresql-7.1.3.tar.gz. > I had started out with the latest (7.2.1) tar, but after various failures > rolled back to the 7.1.3 source, since I found evidence on the net that > somebody had succeeded in building that on Solaris. I lost track of that > change in source over the holiday weekend. It looks like 7.2.1 has it > right. > > Even so, I have not yet fully succeeded in building with the 7.2.1 source. > Using GCC, I got a running postgres, but failed to get pgaccess to work. I > think that may be due to a corrupt libssl.so, but have not gone back to > verify this. Using Sun tools, the compilation succeeded, but I got a > WriteControlFile failure (File exists) when running "make check", which I > never could diagnose.
Strange. We have tons of people on Solaris. > So now I have a fully working 7.1.3 build, and I am tempted to leave well > enough alone. Are the changes in 7.2.1 worth yet another build attempt? Yes, each major release is pretty major in terms of fixes and features. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
