Re: Installing PG 7.3.1 on Solaris 8

Solaris has an ancient Awk installed. The newer one
is there, but named "nawk".
Searching the archives of the comp.lang.awk NG using
keywork "solaris" will yield more information than
anyone here could be interested in knowing :-)

--- Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> <snip>
> > Justin, what was your PATH when you wrote that
> document? You don't
> > mention needing GNU awk ... what did configure
> pick for you?
>
> Don't recall off of the top of my head, however the
> only other place
> likely to have awk in it is /usr/ccs/bin.
>
> Chris, if you could set your path to something like:
>
> PATH=/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin
>
> That should force any awk in /usr/ccs/bin to be
> found first.
>
> It's probably best if you do a "make clean" and
> remove the config.cache
> file before doing ./configure again and compiling.
>
> If that works for you, then the Solaris packaging
> guide will definitely
> be updated with a note to reflect this. If not,
> then I'd suspect you
> might not have all of the Solaris development
> packages installed, or you
> box may need patching to bring it up to date.
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
>
> > regards, tom lane
>
>
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>
>
>
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