Our local admin tried compiling a 64bit PostgreSQL on Solaris 9 using the below environment:
export PATH=:/usr/bin/sparcv9:/usr/ccs/bin/sparcv9:/usr/sfw/bin/sparcv9:/usr/local/bin/sparcv9:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/sparcv9:/usr/ccs/lib/sparcv9:/usr/local/lib/sparcv9:/usr/sfw/lib/sparcv9 export CFLAGS='-m64' export CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include -I/usr/include/ncurses" This resulted in: make[3]: Entering directory `/export/home/rbt/postgresql-8.0.0beta4/src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_procs/ascii_and_mic' gcc -shared -h libascii_and_mic.so.0 ascii_and_mic.o -L../../../../../../src/port -o libascii_and_mic.so.0.0 ld: fatal: file ascii_and_mic.o: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to libascii_and_mic.so.0.0 Making a modification to src/Makefile.shlib to include -m64 on the LINK.shared line fixes the problem: ifeq ($(PORTNAME), solaris) shlib := lib $(NAME)$(DLSUFFIX).$(SO_MAJOR_VERSION).$(SO_MINOR_VERSION) ifeq ($(GCC), yes) LINK.shared = $(CC) -m64 -shared # -m64 else LINK.shared = $(CC) -G endif Can we somehow modify configure to pick up the CFLAGS settings and inject them into the correct place itself? Or should we be doing this another way? -- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])