Hi Daryl,
Thanks muchly for your help.
> Make sure '.' is in your path. Also, make sure you are running sh.
> You can simply sh ./configure.
This was indeed the cause of the problem. It seems a
bit ridiculous that you need to have '.' in your PATH
to install PostgreSQL. These problems have obviously
been introduced at 6.4.2 because I can compile previous
versions without taking these steps.
> On Solaris7 with gcc, I ran:
> ./configure --without-CXX
Thanks also for this pointer - this is something else
that seems to have been introduced at 6.4.2 because
I've never had to add --without-CXX before and
without it the compile fails like so:
gmake -C libpq++ all
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/postgresql-6.4.2/src/interfaces/libpq++'
gcc -I../../backend -I../../include -I../../interfaces/libpq -I../../include -I../../backend -Wall
-Wmissing-prototypes-fPIC -c pgenv.cc -o pgenv.o
In file included from pgenv.cc:23:
pgenv.h:21: string: No such file or directory
gmake[2]: *** [pgenv.o] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/postgresql-6.4.2/src/interfaces/libpq++'
gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/postgresql-6.4.2/src/interfaces'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2
Does anyone know why all these complications have
been introduced for Solaris compilation? Why change
procedures that have worked for ages??
Anyway - thanks again - postmaster is up and
running now.
Patrick
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