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INSTALL appnote for Solaris 10...

From
John R Pierce
Date:
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....

There is a Sun supplied version of gnu readline is on the Solaris
"Companion" DVD as package SFWrline ...

    cd /mnt/Solaris_Software_Companion/Solaris_i386/Packages
    pkgadd -d . SFWrline

(use _sparc for sparc hardware)


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

to compile with Sun Studio 11, I found this worked quite nicely...

    ./configure --prefix=/opt/app/pgsql --with-perl --with-openssl
--with-python \
        CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/sfw/include
-I/usr/sfw/include"
    /usr/sfw/bin/gmake


to prevent any possible conflicts with the Sun distributed 8.1.8, I used...

    pkgrm SUNWpostgr SUNWpostgr-devel SUNWpostgr-docs SUNWpostgr-jdbc \
        SUNWpostgr-libs SUNWpostgr-pl SUNWpostgr-server
SUNWpostgr-server-data \
        SUNWpostgr-tcl

The contrib/start-scripts/freebsd worked adequately as
/etc/init.d/postgres if I removed the -l from the `su` commands.

Re: INSTALL appnote for Solaris 10...

From
Zdenek Kotala
Date:
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

Re: INSTALL appnote for Solaris 10...

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Feel free to submit a diff against the current Solaris FAQ.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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
>
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