Solaris 8 compilation errors

JG> I don't see Solaris 8 on the list of supported platforms,

I have compiled postgres 7.0.3 on SPARC/Solrais 8. But it was compiled w/o tcl support. There is no
much time since installation, but yet all works fine.

JG> but Solaris 7 is
JG> there, so I had hoped 8 would work pretty much the same. Has anyone else run
JG> into this problem?
JG> -john

El Lun 05 Feb 2001 02:30, Alex Guryanow escribi�:

JG> I don't see Solaris 8 on the list of supported platforms,

I have compiled postgres 7.0.3 on SPARC/Solrais 8. But it was compiled w/o
tcl support. There is no much time since installation, but yet all works
fine.

I have installed it on Solaris 7 and 8 with tcl (pgaccess works great!!).

Send the output of the error.

Saludos... :-)

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Thanks for your help.
I've included the output as an attachment. Please let me know what you make
of it.
-John

Martin A. Marques writes:

"J.Goodleaf" <john@goodleaf.net> writes:

stringinfo.c: In function `appendStringInfo':
stringinfo.c:104: `va_list' undeclared (first use in this function)
stringinfo.c:104: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
stringinfo.c:104: for each function it appears in.)
stringinfo.c:104: parse error before `args'
stringinfo.c:121: warning: implicit declaration of function `va_start'
stringinfo.c:121: `args' undeclared (first use in this function)
stringinfo.c:124: warning: implicit declaration of function `va_end'

In src/include/c.h, try including <stddef.h> and <stdarg.h>
unconditionally --- that is, remove #ifdef STDC_HEADERS / #endif
near line 53. This is what we are doing in the 7.1 sources...

regards, tom lane

Tom,
This appears to have done it. Everything compiled properly; postgres
announced it was ready for install. (One minor hitch with "ar" not being in
my PATH... I have to say: Solaris is vastly more of a PITA than FreeBSD, the
only *NIX with which I have any familiarity. No ports tree in Sol8...)

Thx,
John
Tom Lane writes:

Hi John,

It can't find one of the header files it needs to compile that file. I
looked around and cannot find the header containing the definition of
va_args anywhere -- these developers will know.

Did you download gcc for Solaris 8 as a binary or package?
If so,
Bad idea -- and here's why: I had always downloaded the Solaris 7 binary
for gcc. The problem is the libraries "they" used to make that version of
gcc most likely don't match your machine at all. What you gotta do is:

1. download a gcc for sol 8.
2. download the sources for gcc (yea they're huge)
3. compile gcc using the binary/package you downloaded.
4. install the new freshly compiled version

Sure as sh*ttin', everything works after that (compiler wise). Also for
some reason, I have trouble compiling things a lot of the time if I'm logged
in as root, but not as a reg user (with gcc). So usually I compile as a
regular user, then run the gmake install as root.

OH -- make sure you are using gmake instead of distributed make. That can
make a huge difference.

Hope this helps -- I'll be compiling 7.1 for solaris 8 thursday on a new box
(with gcc and sun c both) so I could help out with that if u can wait and
are interested in 7.1

L8r,
George Johnson

-----Original Message-----
From: J.Goodleaf [mailto:john@goodleaf.net]
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 5:42 PM
To: Martin A. Marques
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Solaris 8 compilation errors _OUTPUT

Thanks for your help.
I've included the output as an attachment. Please let me know what you make
of it.
-John

Martin A. Marques writes:

El Lun 05 Feb 2001 02:30, Alex Guryanow escribi�:

JG> I don't see Solaris 8 on the list of supported platforms,

I have compiled postgres 7.0.3 on SPARC/Solrais 8. But it was compiled

w/o