
	Hello

	I am the fellow trying to build 6.4 for sunos - it seems changes somewhere
in the past have messed up the sunos4.1.4 build.

	I have a list to keep -Wall from complaining (just warnings) and have
added  the needed #defines back for the port.

	I am down to the build in 
...src/interfaces/libpq

	where it tries to do

...
ar crs libpq.a `lorder fe-auth.o fe-connect.o fe-exec.o fe-misc.o fe-print.o 
fe-
lobj.o dllist.o pqsignal.o | tsort`
tsort: cycle in data
tsort: fe-connect.o
tsort: fe-auth.o
tsort: cycle in data
tsort: fe-exec.o
tsort: fe-connect.o
ar: bad option `s'
gmake[2]: *** [libpq.a] Error 1
...

	since sunos does not have a 's' option for ar I have traced this back
to Makefile.global which sets

AROPT=crs

	The override for sunos (cr) is not invoked. HUMMMM

	The 's' option not available means an explicit ranlib is required.

	If whoever thinks they understand  configure can come up with a patch  so
sunos sets AROPT=cr and does the ranlib I will apply it and pass back the other
patches for sunos - really not many. It just takes a real long time to build on
a IPC (SS1+). 

	If no-one speaks up I will see if I can come up with a configure patch, but
if it is built from another tool then that tool needs to be patched.

-- 
	Stephen N. Kogge
	stevek@uimage.com
	http://www.uimage.com



Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:54:58 -0500
Stephen Kogge <stevek@uimage.com>
building 6.4 on sunos 4.1.4
Stephen Kogge <stevek@uimage.com> writes:
> 	since sunos does not have a 's' option for ar I have traced this back
> to Makefile.global which sets
> AROPT=crs
> 	The override for sunos (cr) is not invoked. HUMMMM

Hmm.  It sounds like configure is not selecting the right template file,
because both template/sunos4_cc and template/sunos4_gcc contain "AROPT:cr".

I think you need to run configure with "--with-template=sunos4_cc"
(or gcc if you prefer) to force it to use the right template.  A lot
of your other problems might go away too ;-).

You might want to look at config.guess and try to figure out why that's
not detecting sunos4 to begin with.  Hard to believe that that's
broken...

			regards, tom lane

Tue, 17 Nov 1998 18:19:43 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: [HACKERS] building 6.4 on sunos 4.1.4 