My guess is that you are being bitten by a bug we had with the sed
scripts in those old releases. Seems newer seds are more prone to
trigger that bug. As I remember, it was something about the sed's and
backslashes in one of the *.sh files in the backend directory. I don't
remember more. Try and find that command, send the script to me, and I
will recognize the bug we fixed.
Also, wipe all the dust off that old tarball. :-)
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Eric Scroger wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am having problems compiling Postgres 6.4.2 on Solaris 7.
> I know, 6.4?, why aren't you using 7.1/7.2. Well, a number
> of our clients still use 6.4. We will upgrade them to 7.1/7.2
> later this year.
>
> In the meantime, I have been given another development box
> on which I need to install Postgres 6.4. I have the src tarball,
> postgresql-6.4.2.tar. I have run configure and tried making,
> using gmake all. The following error arises. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> gmake[2]: Entering directory
> `/usr/share/src/pgsql/postgresql-6.4.2/src/backend/bootstrap'
> d bootparse.y
> gmake[2]: d: Command not found
> gmake[2]: [bootparse.c] Error 127 (ignored)
> grep -v "^#" boot.sed > sedfile
> sed -f sedfile < y.tab.c > bootparse.c
> /bin/sh: y.tab.c: cannot open
> gmake[2]: *** [bootparse.c] Error 1
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/share/src/pgsql/postgresql-6.4.2/src/backend/bootstrap'
> gmake[1]: *** [bootstrap.dir] Error 2
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/share/src/pgsql/postgresql-6.4.2/src/backend'
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
>
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