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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