I just built a version of postgres 8.2.4 on Solaris 10 x86 ... a few things that could be mentioned in INSTALL, and or in the Solaris notes....

There is a Sun supplied version of gnu readline is on the Solaris "Companion" DVD as package SFWrline ...

   cd /mnt/Solaris_Software_Companion/Solaris_i386/Packages
   pkgadd -d . SFWrline

(use _sparc for sparc hardware)


Solaris has a `crle` command that performs a function similar to ldconfig of the BSD systems. To globally add libreadline and libsl to the library path, I used...

 crle -l /lib:/usr/lib:/opt/sfw/lib:/usr/sfw/lib

if you only wanted to do this for a single user, then put the following in that user's profile,

 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/sfw/lib:/usr/sfw/lib

for compilation, set the path as..

   export PATH; PATH=/usr/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin

to compile with Sun Studio 11, I found this worked quite nicely...

./configure --prefix=/opt/app/pgsql --with-perl --with-openssl --with-python \ CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/sfw/include -I/usr/sfw/include"
   /usr/sfw/bin/gmake


to prevent any possible conflicts with the Sun distributed 8.1.8, I used...

   pkgrm SUNWpostgr SUNWpostgr-devel SUNWpostgr-docs SUNWpostgr-jdbc \
SUNWpostgr-libs SUNWpostgr-pl SUNWpostgr-server SUNWpostgr-server-data \
       SUNWpostgr-tcl

The contrib/start-scripts/freebsd worked adequately as /etc/init.d/postgres if I removed the -l from the `su` commands.



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