Re: INSTALL appnote for Solaris 10...

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

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>
> 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