Building 7.1.3 on Solaris 2.6 - Mailing list pgsql-general

Short version of query:  Can anybody provide me with the steps necessary to get PostgreSQL 7.1.3 to build on Solaris
2.6? I'm thinking of something along the lines of "Compiling PostgreSQL 7.3.2 on Solaris 8" (at
http://techdocs.postgresql.org/v2/Guides/Installation%20Guides/Compiling%20PostgreSQL%207.3.2%20on%20Solaris%208/document_view),
retrofittedto 7.1.3 and 2.6.  I'm not asking for something as detailed as that; just the Solaris voodoo, like setting
environmentvariables properly, that isn't covered in the Postgres INSTALL docs.  I've encountered a number of headaches
alongthe way (see long version below) and still haven't succeeded in getting a build that will function. 


Long version:

(Why 7.1.3 and not the latest version?  This is the version we're running on our Linux-based servers, and it's known to
becompatible with the latest version of our own server code.  We'd like to standardize the version of PostgreSQL we're
runningacross all of our servers for a number of reasons, not least of which is so we can update the older Solaris
serversto also be running the latest version of our own code, and un-fork our code base.) 

In preparation for the upgrade, I've updated or installed gcc, gmake, glib, readline, binutils, bzip2, and a number of
otherdependencies, to the latest versions.  I built them from source, because I found references online saying that the
sunfreeware.combinaries were not that reliable. 

The first hurdle to be overcome was a bug in 7.1.3's 'configure'.  The 'config.h' it generated contained an
unterminatedstring for PG_VERSION_STR, causing 'make' to fail horribly (see
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-ports/2003-04/msg00015.phpfor probable reason); but more importantly, 'configure'
wasfailing to find libraries in standard places.  Passing lists of directories in the '--with-includes' and
'--with-libraries'command-line options to 'configure' didn't seem to help; manually editing 'config.h' to close the
unterminatedstring and override for the header files that 'configure' didn't find, enabled 'make' to go to completion,
butthe resulting build wouldn't pass its regression tests.  However, editing 'configure' to set PG_VERSION_STR to a
fixedvalue rather than one determined programmatically, enabled it to find all of the libraries correctly and build to
completion. That build couldn't pass its regression tests because it was looking for its binaries in their intended
finalinstall location (/usr/local/pgsql713) instead of the temp location in the source hierarchy
(.../postgresql-7.1.3/src/test/regress/tmp_check/install/usr/local/pgsql713). Adding a symlink enabled this version to
passits regression tests. 

After installing, however, this build was unable to create a database because the binaries were looking for their
requiredlibraries in the wrong places.  '/usr/local/pgsql713/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql713/data' results in: 
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ld.so.1: /usr/local/pgsql713/bin/pg_encoding: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/pgsql713/bin/pg_encoding: symbol
pg_char_to_encoding:referenced symbol not found 
initdb: pg_encoding failed

Perhaps you did not configure PostgreSQL for multibyte support or
the program was not successfully installed.
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'ldd -r /usr/local/pgsql713/bin/pg_encoding' produces this output:
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        libpq.so.2 =>    /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.so.2
        libresolv.so.2 =>        /usr/lib/libresolv.so.2
        libnsl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
        libsocket.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
        libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
        libm.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libm.so.1
        libreadline.so.4 =>      /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so.4
        libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
        libmp.so.2 =>    /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
        libgcc_s.so.1 =>         /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
        /usr/platform/SUNW,UltraAX-MP/lib/libc_psr.so.1
        symbol not found: pg_char_to_encoding (/usr/local/pgsql713/bin/pg_encoding)
        symbol not found: pg_encoding_to_char (/usr/local/pgsql713/bin/pg_encoding)
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which, to my untrained eye, looks like, despite all my singing and dancing, the binaries are still lookin' for love in
allthe wrong places.  (/usr/local/pgsql is the location of the existing PG 7.0.1 installation from which we're
upgrading.) The error doesn't appear to be affected by the values of PGSQL, PGLIB, etc., at runtime. 

If anyone a bit more Solaris-savvy has some light to shed on the problem, I'd be grateful.  My current thinking is that
theproblem is with the compile-time values of environment variables such as LD_RUN_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but I lack
deepunderstanding of all their ins and outs. 

A bit more information that might be useful:  The version of PostgreSQL from which we're upgrading these servers is
7.0.1;it's located in /usr/local/pgsql/, so 7.1.3 is being built and tested with '--prefix=/usr/local/pgsql713' 

The arguments to 'configure' I'm using are:
./configure  --with-includes=/usr/include:/usr/local/include:\
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/3.2.3/include:\
/usr/platform/sun4u/include:/usr/platform/sun4c/include:\
/usr/platform/sun4d/include:/usr/platform/sun4m/include:/usr/dt/share/include \
--with-libs=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/ccs/lib:/usr/platform/sun4u/lib:\
/usr/share/lib:/usr/opt/SUNWmd/lib:/usr/local/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/lib \
--enable-locale --enable-multibyte=UNICODE --with-perl --enable-odbc \
--prefix=/usr/local/pgsql713

Values of relevant environment variables:

LD_RUN_PATH=:/usr/local/lib:/usr/etc/lib:/usr/proc/lib:/usr/etc/security/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/pgsql/lib:/usr/local/pgsql/include/lib:/usr/local/ssl/lib
INCLUDE=:/usr/include:/usr/local/include:/usr/local/lib/glib/include:/usr/include/sys

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:/usr/local/lib:/usr/etc/lib:/usr/proc/lib:/usr/etc/security/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/pgsql/lib:/usr/local/pgsql/include/lib:/usr/local/ssl/lib:/usr/local/pgsql/lib
MACHTYPE=sparc-sun-solaris2.6
POSTGRES_LIB=/usr/local/pgsql/lib
PGSQL=/usr/local/pgsql
PGLIB=/usr/local/pgsql/lib
OSTYPE=solaris2.6
PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data

PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/FSFgzip/bin:/opt/LYNX271/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/opt/SUNWmd/bin:/usr/opt/SUNWmd/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/pgsql/bin

Thanks to anyone who wants to help...

Dave Krieger
iM Networks, Inc.