Hi Richard, Sun/Sparc is the platform of choice in our case. We tested the principle with postgres 7.4.6 but found a what we believe is a compile time dependancy in create_conversion.sql where $libdir is not being resolved properly during the intidb process. The usual environment variables don't seem to help (LD_LIBRARY_PATH; PATH; PGLIB etc). Its not clear whether the concept of binary distribution is not supported, hence my general question.
Sounds like it should be fine, for your situation*. It could be there is a glitch in create_conversion.sql, especially if it is something that won't show if you compile on the machine you want to run on. You might want to file a bug on it. I'm afraid I don't have a copy of the 7.4.6 tarball to hand.
It might also be worth checking 8.0beta to see if it's fixed there - I know some relocation changes were made there (because of the Windows port iirc).
Bit puzzled there isn't some standard binary package already built for various flavours of Sun box though.
* of course, assuming you're on the same OS version with compatible libraries etc etc etc.
PS - cc the list and the sender when you reply, it's the convention round here (though not on most lists I'll grant you)
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