Re: problems with configure

On Lun 06 Nov 2000 13:28, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Martin A. Marques" <martin(at)math(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar> writes:
> >> Hmm ... is it possible that his compiler distinguishes between
> >> "extern int foo(...)" and "extern foo(...)" ? Why don't we
> >> have the return type there, anyway?
> >
> > If it's of any help, I'm on Solaris 7, SPARC, gcc-2.95.2, latest
> > Postgres CVS. Another question would be, why didn't I have problems
> > of this type when I compiled PostgreSQL 7.0.2 on Solaris 8, with the
> > same version of gcc?
>
> Different header files, likely. I'm starting to wonder if Solaris 7
> has some header-file dependency for <sys/socket.h> beyond the one that
> the test is allowing for (<sys/types.h>).

Is there any kind of info you would need that I could provide? If you want I
can send the config.log, output of the configure execution, etc. Even the
socket.h and the types.h.
BTW, I didn't find diffs between Solaris 7 .h files and Solaris 8 headers.

> BTW, does 'Psocklen_t' equate to just 'socklen_t *', or is there
> something strange hidden there?

I don' t have the slightest idea.

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