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Zdenek Kotala wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > > 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.... > > Solaris.FAQ is best place for it. > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_Solaris.html > > <snip> > > > > 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 > > > > Better way is use -R linker switch: > > LDFLAGS="-R /opt/sfw/lib:/usr/sfw/lib" > > > > > The contrib/start-scripts/freebsd worked adequately as > > /etc/init.d/postgres if I removed the -l from the `su` commands. > > On Solaris 10 SMF is recommended instead standard start stop scripts. > You can get SMF script for example there: > > http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/howtoguides/postgresqlhowto.jsp#2 > or > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/postgres/postgresql-8.2/Solaris/ > > > Zdenek > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
