Thread: ./configure failing -- pgsql 7.3.3 install on solaris 8

this is probably something stupid, but i don't normally install postgresql
from source (rpms or openbsd packages have been my norm.) the ./configure
step is failing thusly:

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.

the tail of configure.log shows nothing of any diagnostic help whatsoever:

# tail config.log
#define HAVE_RL_FILENAME_COMPLETION_FUNCTION 1
#define HAVE_FINITE 1
#define HAVE_SIGSETJMP 1
#define HAVE_SYSLOG 1
#define HAVE_STRTOLL 1
#define HAVE_STRTOULL 1
#define HAVE_ATEXIT 1
#define HAVE_FSEEKO 1

configure: exit 1

the message appears to have been generated by the following code from
configure.in; i'm no expert on configure internals and don't really know
how to chase this down:

# This test makes sure that run tests work at all.  Sometimes a shared
# library is found by the linker, but the runtime linker can't find it.
# This check should come after all modifications of compiler or linker
# variables, and before any other run tests.
AC_MSG_CHECKING([test program])
AC_TRY_RUN([int main() { return 0; }],
[AC_MSG_RESULT(ok)],
[AC_MSG_RESULT(failed)
AC_MSG_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.]])],
[AC_MSG_RESULT([cross-compiling])])


here is the context:

  Solaris 8 on a Sunblade 100
  gcc 2.95.2
  readline, gmake, perl 5.8.0, and all that stuff installed
  from sunfreeware.com

# echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/ccs/bin
# echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/lib:/usr/X/lib

can anyone tell me what i've overlooked, what environment variable i
haven't set properly?

thanks,
  richard
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Richard Welty                                         rwelty@averillpark.net
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On Sunday 13 July 2003 19:52, Richard Welty wrote:
> this is probably something stupid, but i don't normally install postgresql
> from source (rpms or openbsd packages have been my norm.) the ./configure
> step is failing thusly:
>
> 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.
>
> the tail of configure.log shows nothing of any diagnostic help whatsoever:
>
> # tail config.log
> #define HAVE_RL_FILENAME_COMPLETION_FUNCTION 1
> #define HAVE_FINITE 1
> #define HAVE_SIGSETJMP 1
> #define HAVE_SYSLOG 1
> #define HAVE_STRTOLL 1
> #define HAVE_STRTOULL 1
> #define HAVE_ATEXIT 1
> #define HAVE_FSEEKO 1
>
> configure: exit 1

Well, probably you need to look lot more lines than tail is showing here. Can
you post entire last test?

HTH

 Shridhar

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 20:09:08 +0530 Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in> wrote:
> Well, probably you need to look lot more lines than tail is showing
> here. Can you post entire last test?

ah, i didn't realize how far back in configure.log you had to go. i think
i see what i need to chase down now:

ld: warning: file libgcc_s.so.1: required by /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so, not
found

thanks,
  richard
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Richard Welty                                         rwelty@averillpark.net
Averill Park Networking                                         518-573-7592
    Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:48:57 -0400 (EDT) Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 20:09:08 +0530 Shridhar Daithankar
> <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in> wrote:
> > Well, probably you need to look lot more lines than tail is showing
> > here. Can you post entire last test?

> ah, i didn't realize how far back in configure.log you had to go. i think
> i see what i need to chase down now:

> ld: warning: file libgcc_s.so.1: required by
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so, not found

it turned out to be a simple problem to resolve. the gcc compiler was a bit
old, and missing a library that some of the newer packages expected gcc to
supply. i updated gcc to a current version and ./configure completed
successfully.

richard
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Averill Park Networking                                         518-573-7592
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