After 5 seconds of intense thought, I suggest that you check the privileges on your compiler stuff. Please keep posting and let us know how you fared. -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aly Dharshi Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 4:12 PM To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Compiling Postgresql 8.0.3 on Solaris 10 Hello Folks, I hope that you are well. I tried compiling Postgres 8.0.3 on Solaris 10 and encountered the following problem, has anybody else had problems. I know that I have gcc3 installed and working, compiled apache with it as well as a small test program. This is a Sun Blade 150 with about 1GB RAM. [dharshi::02:03 PM::~/downloads/postgresql-8.0.3]$ ./configure rm: remove conftest.sh (yes/no)? y rm: remove conf29127 (yes/no)? y rm: remove conf29127.file (yes/no)? y rm: remove conftest.c (yes/no)? y rm: remove confdefs.h (yes/no)? y checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10 checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10 checking which template to use... solaris checking whether to build with 64-bit integer date/time support... no checking whether NLS is wanted... no checking for default port number... 5432 checking for C compiler default output... -rwx------ checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs. If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'. rm: remove conftest.c (yes/no)? y rm: remove confdefs.h (yes/no)? y rm: remove a.out (yes/no)? y Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Aly. --- Aly Dharshi aly.dharshi@xxxxxxxxx "A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly