Re: make hangs on Solaris 2.6

Ganimede <newtoolbox@yahoo.com> writes:
> few weeks ago I compiled PostgreSQL 8.3.1 on Solaris SPARC 9 without errors or problems. Today I would like to
compileit on my old Sparis SPARC 2.6 box, so I've download new gnu software. 

2.6?  How old is that?

> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> gethostbyname                       ../../src/port/libpgport_srv.a(getaddrinfo_srv.o)  (symbol belongs to implicit
dependency/usr/lib/libnsl.so.1) 
> h_errno                             ../../src/port/libpgport_srv.a(getaddrinfo_srv.o)  (symbol belongs to implicit
dependency/usr/lib/libnsl.so.1) 
> inet_ntoa                           ../../src/port/libpgport_srv.a(getaddrinfo_srv.o)  (symbol belongs to implicit
dependency/usr/lib/libnsl.so.1) 
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to postgres

Just guessing, but maybe it will help to add -lnsl to LIBS (in
src/Makefile.global) after running configure.

            regards, tom lane