INSTALL appnote for Solaris 10...

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#1John R Pierce
pierce@hogranch.com

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.

#2Zdenek Kotala
Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM
In reply to: John R Pierce (#1)
Re: INSTALL appnote for Solaris 10...

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

#3Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Zdenek Kotala (#2)
Re: INSTALL appnote for Solaris 10...

Feel free to submit a diff against the current Solaris FAQ.

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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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