Hello, again,
I solved my own problem. The LD_LIBRARY_PATH was not set.
Carol
On Mar 5, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Carol Walter wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> This is on a Solaris 10 box. Did I shoot myself in the foot by
> trying to do a completely clean install?
>
> I'm installing version PostgreSQL 8.3.6 as a test. I want to take
> it live in two weeks. I installed it configured and ran gmake once
> and it seemed to work fine, but I didn't have the data directory
> name that I thought I should have had, so I ran gmake distclean
> deleted the files that were created in postgres directory and ran
> configure again. This time I got an error on it. The error said
> that ...
>
> checking whether getpwuid_r takes a fifth argument... yes
> checking whether strerror_r returns int... yes
> checking test program... failed
> configure: error:
> Could not execute a simple test program. This may be a problem
> related to locating shared libraries. Check the file 'config.log'
> for the exact reason.
>
> When I looked at the config.log file, the end looks like this ...
>
> #define HAVE_WCTYPE_H 1
> #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org"
> #define PACKAGE_NAME "PostgreSQL"
> #define PACKAGE_STRING "PostgreSQL 8.3.6"
> #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "postgresql"
> #define PACKAGE_VERSION "8.3.6"
> #define PG_KRB_SRVNAM "postgres"
> #define PG_VERSION "8.3.6"
> #define PG_VERSION_NUM 80306
> #define PG_VERSION_STR "PostgreSQL 8.3.6 on sparc-sun-solaris2.10,
> compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)"
> #define STRERROR_R_INT
> #define USE_PAM 1
> #define USE_SSL 1
> #define WORDS_BIGENDIAN 1
>
> configure: exit 1
>
> What does an exit code 1 from configure mean?
>
> Thanks,
> Carol
>
>
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