I'm trying to install postgres 8.4.5 on Solaris 10 (Sun): ./configure --prefix=/app/postgres-8.4.5 \ --with-libs=/app/usr/local/lib \ --with-includes=/app/usr/local/include (lib & include specified because I have readline installed in a non-standard location. Yay.) This fails with this error: checking size of off_t... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (off_t) The config.log contains this (I'm not sure how much to include here): conftest.c:71: warning: left shift count >= width of type conftest.c:71: warning: left shift count >= width of type conftest.c:73: error: size of array `off_t_is_large' is negative ...and this interesting tidbit, which I just discovered: ld.so.1: conftest: fatal: libreadline.so.5: open failed: No such file or directory Per alvherre's suggestion on irc, I tried this: ./configure --prefix=/app/postgres-8.4.5 \ --with-libs=/app/usr/local/lib \ --with-includes=/app/usr/local/include \ --disable-largefile It failed with the same command-line error message as above. config.log contains the same error about readline: ld.so.1: conftest: fatal: libreadline.so.5: open failed: No such file or directory The only seemingly-relevant thing I found on google was this: http://www.xinotes.org/notes/note/747/ I don't have the right privs on this server to try that solution, so I tried running configure --without-readline JFK, and that was successful. But I really want readline. ;) Any ideas what the problem is? Thanks! gabrielle -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
