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-
-====================================================
-Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for Postgres95
-IRIX Specific
-TO BE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NORMAL FAQ
-====================================================
-last updated: Fri Oct 25 18:40:00 BST 1996
-
-current maintainer: Andrew C.R. Martin (martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk)
-original author: Andrew C.R. Martin (martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk)
-
-
-Changes in this version (* = modified, + = new, - = removed):
--0.*) Bugs in Postgres95 V1.08
-*1.3) What are the references in X11_LIB to libsocket and libnsl in
- src/Makefile.global?
-
-This file is divided approximately as follows:
-1.*) Installing Postgres95
-2.*) Uninstalling Postgres95
-3.*) Extending Postgres95
-
-
-Questions answered:
-1.1) What extra items do I need to install Postgres95 under Irix?
-1.2) What changes do I need to make to src/Makefile.global?
-1.3) What are the references in X11_LIB to libsocket and libnsl in
- src/Makefile.global?
-1.4) Are there any other changes I should make?
-2.1) Why can't I move the executable files?
-
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-Section 1: Installing Postgres95
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-1.1) What extra items do I need to install Postgres95 under Irix?
-
- You *must* have the following installed:
- a) Gnu make (installed as gmake)
-
- You are recommended to install the following:
- a) GNU install (installed as ginstall)
-
- You may choose to install the following:
- a) GNU readline library (if you wish psql to have readline
- support).
- b) tcl/tk (if you wish to compile pgtclsh)
-
-1.2) What changes do I need to make to src/Makefile.global?
-
- You *must* set the following variables:
- PORTNAME= irix5
- IPCSDIR= /usr/sbin
-
- You will also need to change the following to match your own
- installation:
- SRCDIR
- POSTGRESDIR
-
- If you switch on the USE_TCL option, you will need to set these:
- TCL_INCDIR=
- TCL_LIBDIR=
- TCL_LIB =
- TK_INCDIR=
- TK_LIBDIR=
- TK_LIB =
-
- You may also make any other changes you need as documented in
- the INSTALL file and in Makefile.global
-
-1.3) What are the references in X11_LIB to libsocket and libnsl in
- src/Makefile.global?
-
- This was a problem in 1.08 (they are Sun Solaris specific).
- It is fixed in 1.09.
-
-1.4) Are there any other changes I should make?
-
- If you have installed the GNU install program (ginstall), you
- should edit src/mk/port/postgres.mk.irix5
- and change the line:
- INSTALL=/usr/bin/X11/bsdinst
- to
- INSTALL=ginstall
-
- For an explanation as to why this is a good idea, see Question 2.1
-
-
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-Section 2: Deinstalling Postgres95
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-2.1) Why can't I move the executable files?
-
- By default, the IRIX port uses the BSD compatible version of
- install from /usr/bin/X11. If you read the man page for this
- version of install, you will see that it is not meant for
- end-user use; it has the interesting side-effect of chowning
- files it installs to root.
-
- You should still be able to delete the files as you (the
- postgres user) will own the directory in which they are
- stored.
-
- The normal IRIX install program cannot be used easily as it
- takes its arguments in the reverse order. It is therefore
- recommended to use the GNU version of install (ginstall).
- See Question 1.4
-
-
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-Section 3: Extending Postgres95
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-3.1) How do I compile a C program to create a function for extending
- Postgres95
-
- Here is a sample command line:
-
- cc -I/usr/local/postgres95/include/ -I/usr/local/postgres95/src/backend
- -shared -o funcs.so funcs.c
-
-
-****************************************************************************
-Dr. Andrew C.R. Martin, University College London & SciTech Software
-EMAIL: martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk Tel:(Work) +44(0)171 419 3890
-URL: http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/~martin (Home) +44(0)1372 275775
-****************************************************************************
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-====================================================
-Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for Postgres95
-Linux Specific
-TO BE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NORMAL FAQ
-====================================================
-last updated: Mon Oct 28 10:25:00 BST 1996
-
-current maintainer: Andrew C.R. Martin (martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk)
-original author: Andrew C.R. Martin (martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk)
-
-
-Changes in this version (* = modified, + = new, - = removed):
--0.*) Bugs in Postgres95 V1.08
-*1.3) [REDHAT] Why do I get problems with missing libdl and dlfcn.h?
-*1.4) [SLACKWARE 3.1] Why do I get problems with missing libdl and dlfcn.h?
-*1.5) My compile of the backend dies complaining about the include file
- dlfcn.h missing
-*1.9) Why do I get problems with ld.so?
-*1.13) What are the references in X11_LIB to libsocket and libnsl in
- src/Makefile.global?
-
-
-This file is divided approximately as follows:
-1.*) Installing Postgres95
-2.*) Compiling accessory programs
-3.*) Runtime Problems
-4.*) Spurious Problems in Need of Verification
-
-
-Questions answered:
-1.1) What changes do I need to make to src/Makefile.global
-1.2) Why do I get problems with missing libreadline?
-1.3) [REDHAT] Why do I get problems with missing libdl and dlfcn.h?
-1.4) [SLACKWARE 3.1] Why do I get problems with missing libdl and dlfcn.h?
-1.5) My compile of the backend dies complaining about the include file
- dlfcn.h missing
-1.6) GCC complains about an ignored option -fpic
-1.7) I get warnings of the form
- warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
-1.8) [SuSE-Linux 4.2] Where is curses and termcap?
-1.9) Why do I get problems with ld.so?
-1.10) Why do I get `yy_flush_buffer undefined' errors?
-1.11) How do I compile Postgres95 on an a.out system?
-1.12) Why does make fail with:
- yacc -d /disk2/postgres95/src/backend/parser/gram.y
- make: /usr/bin/make: cannot execute binary file
-1.13) What are the references in X11_LIB to libsocket and libnsl in
- src/Makefile.global?
-1.14) [DEBIAN] Where is libtermcap?
-2.1) The linker fails to find libX11 when compiling pgtclsh
-3.1) I get an error reporting _fUnKy_POSTPORT_sTuFf_ undefined when
- running scripts like createuser
-3.2) I run postmaster and after that system says 'Bad system call(Core
- dumped)'
-3.3) When I try to start the Postmaster, why do I get an error of the form
- Failed Assertion("!(file != 0):(null)", File:
- "/usr/local/postgres95/src/backend/storage/file/fd.c", Line: 257)
- !(file != 0) (0)
- initdb: could not create template database
- initdb: cleaning up.
-3.4) Why doesn't createuser work?
-3.5) Why do I get an error like:
- IpcMemoryCreate: memKey=155356396 , size=760632 ,
- permission=384IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(..., create, ...)
- failed: Invalid argument
-4.1) Why doesn't the postmaster start the first time?
-
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-Section 1: Compiling Postgres95
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-1.1) What changes do I need to make to src/Makefile.global
-
- You *must* set the following variables:
- PORTNAME= linux
-
- You will also need to change the following to match your own
- installation:
- SRCDIR
- POSTGRESDIR
-
- If you switch on the USE_TCL option, you will need to set these:
- TCL_INCDIR=
- TCL_LIBDIR=
- TCL_LIB=
- TK_INCDIR=
- TK_LIBDIR=
- TK_LIB=
- X11_INCDIR=
- X11_LIBDIR=
- X11_LIB=
-
- On my Slackware3.0 system, these are:
- TCL_INCDIR= /usr/include/tcl
- TCL_LIBDIR= /usr/lib
- TCL_LIB= -ltcl
- TK_INCDIR= /usr/include/tcl
- TK_LIBDIR= /usr/lib
- TK_LIB= -ltk
- X11_INCDIR= /usr/include/X11
- X11_LIBDIR= /usr/X386/lib
- X11_LIB= -lX11
-
- You may also make any other changes you need as documented in
- the INSTALL file and in Makefile.global
-
-
-1.2) Why do I get problems with missing libreadline?
-
- Linux systems generally don't come with the GNU readline library
- installed. Either comment out the USE_READLINE variable in
- src/Makefile.global or install the GNU readline library.
-
- Note that Debian Linux (like FreeBSD) does come with readline
- installed.
-
-1.3) [REDHAT] Why do I get problems with missing libdl and dlfcn.h?
-
- The libdl library is used for dynamic linking of user-supplied
- functions at run-time. For some reason this library was missed out
- from the Redhat distribution. It seems that the latest Redhat 4.0
- (Colgate) fixes this.
-
- RedHat now have a new ld.so RPM package on their FTP site.
- Simply grab:
-
- ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/devel/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ld.so-1.7.14-4.i386.rpm
-
- Install the RPM file in the usual way and off you go!
-
- There has been one report of a corrupted system resulting from
- programs accessing these libraries while updating them (not
- altogether surprising). Consequently it is a good idea to reboot
- the system before installing the new libraries and to
- have as little running as possible during this upgrade. Going
- into single-user mode is probably a good idea!
-
- If you want to do it the hard way, you can obtain the library and the
- header file from:
-
- ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC/ld.so-1.7.14.tar.gz
-
- Alternatively, you may find precompiled binaries in
- distributions/debian/buzz/binary-i386/base/ld.so-1.7.14-4.deb
- on the same site, or follow the instructions given for question 1.2 for
- correcting the same error with early releases of Slackware 3.1.
- Don't use this method unless you know what you are doing!
-
-
-
-1.4) [SLACKWARE 3.1] Why do I get problems with missing libdl and dlfcn.h?
-
- See the answer to question 1.3. Slackware up to version 3.0 was
- supplied with this library and include file and they seem to be
- back in again in the latest versions of 3.1, but the early 3.1
- releases (before 9th September 1996) had them missing and many
- CD-ROM versions will have been pressed from the first 3.1 releases.
-
- There has been one report of a corrupted system resulting from
- programs accessing these libraries while updating them (not
- altogether surprising). Consequently it is a good idea to reboot
- the system before installing the new libraries and to
- have as little running as possible during this upgrade. Going
- into single-user mode is probably a good idea!
-
- The easiest fix is to obtain the file ldso.tgz from the a4 disk of
- a more recent Slackware 3.1 distribution and unpack this file
- from the root (/) directory, then do
-
- sh install/doinst.sh
-
- to complete the installation. Follow this with
-
- ldconfig
-
- If you want to install manually, you must first install the file
- dlfcn.h in /usr/include.
-
- Second, install the file libdl.so.1.7.14 (or whatever the latest
- release is) in /lib, then do:
-
- cd /lib
- ln -sf libdl.so.1.7.14 libdl.so.1
- ln -sf libdl.so.1 libdl.so
-
- On some systems (depending on your GCC configuration) it may be
- necessary to do:
-
- cd /usr/lib
- ln -sf /lib/libdl.so .
-
- Finally
-
- ldconfig
-
-
-1.5) My compile of the backend dies complaining about the include file
- dlfcn.h missing
-
- See the answer to question 1.3/1.4. Don't forget that if you are using
- an a.out system you must first have installed the dld package
- (which is not supplied with most a.out systems) to have dlfcn.h
- at all. See Question 1.11.
-
-
-1.6) GCC complains about an ignored option -fpic
-
- Earlier versions of GCC accepted either -fpic or -fPIC.
- It appears that more recent versions (V2.7.2?) require -fPIC.
- If you are using an ELF version of Linux, this can safely be
- ignored as -fPIC is the default.
-
- You can correct this by editing
- src/mk/port/postgres.mk.linux
-
-
-1.7) I get warnings of the form
- warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
-
- These can safely be ignored
-
-1.8) [SuSE-Linux 4.2] Where is curses and termcap?
-
- SuSE-Linux has ncurses but not curses. Edit src/bin/psql/Makefile and
- Change
- LIBCURSES= -lcurses
- to
- LIBCURSES= -lncurses
-
- SuSE-Linux has the termcap library is in /usr/lib/termcap instead of
- in /usr/lib
- Edit src/bin/psql/Makefile and
- Change
- ifeq ($(PORTNAME), linux)
- LD_ADD += -ltermcap
- else
- to
- ifeq ($(PORTNAME), linux)
- LD_ADD += -L/usr/lib/termcap -ltermcap
- else
-
- In fact, since ncurses uses terminfo rather than termcap, it should
- be possible to change this line to
- LD_ADD +=
- since you shouldn't need the termcap library.
-
-1.9) Why do I get problems with ld.so?
-
- If you get problems with ld.so, another library required under
- ELF for dynamic loading, then you have messed up your installation
- or (more likely) upgrade of Linux.
-
- See the answers to Question 1.3/1.4. You may need to install
- ld.so.x.y.z in /lib and run ldconfig.
-
- The most recent stable release of the ld package is 1.7.14
- At the time of writing, 1.8.x versions of ld are experimental.
-
-1.10) Why do I get `yy_flush_buffer undefined' errors?
-
- This isn't really Linux specific, but is common on older Linux
- installations. You must have a recent version of flex (2.5.2 or later)
- to compile Postgres95. Note that flex 2.5.3 has a bug: see
- Question 3.4.
-
-1.11) How do I compile Postgres95 on an a.out system?
-
- First, you must install the dld library. This may be obtained
- from Sunsite as:
- Linux/libs/dld.3.2.7.tar.gz
-
- Second, comment out the LINUX_ELF line in src/mk/port/postgres.mk.linux
-
-1.12) Why does make fail with:
- yacc -d /disk2/postgres95/src/backend/parser/gram.y
- make: /usr/bin/make: cannot execute binary file
-
- yacc is generally implemented as a script which invokes bison -y
- For some reason (certain versions of make? certain versions of
- bash?) make is unable to execute this script file.
-
- To correct this, simply edit src/mk/port/postgres.mk.linux
- and, at the end of the file, change:
- # YACC = bison -y
- to
- YACC = bison -y
-
-1.13) What are the references in X11_LIB to libsocket and libnsl in
- src/Makefile.global?
-
- This was a problem in 1.08 (they are Sun Solaris specific).
- It is fixed in 1.09.
-
-1.14) [DEBIAN] Where is libtermcap?
-
- Debian Linux comes without the termcap library and uses ncurses
- (which uses terminfo instead). There is no need to change the
- LIBCURSES variable in src/bin/psql/Makefile since Debian provides
- a link from libncurses to libcurses (unlike SuSE-Linux --- see
- Question 1.8).
-
- Edit src/bin/psql/Makefile and change:
-
- ifeq ($(PORTNAME), linux)
- LD_ADD += -ltermcap
- else
-
- to
-
- ifeq ($(PORTNAME), linux)
- CFLAGS +=
- else
-
-
-
-
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-Section 2: Compiling accessory programs
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-2.1) The linker fails to find libX11 when compiling pgtclsh
-
- Modify the src/Makefile.global to change
- X11_LIBDIR = /usr/lib
- to
- X11_LIBDIR = /usr/X11R6/lib
-
-
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-Section 3: Runtime Problems
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-3.1) I get an error reporting _fUnKy_POSTPORT_sTuFf_ undefined when
- running scripts like createuser
-
- This is a bug in V1.06-V1.07 of Postgres and is fixed in V1.08
-
-3.2) I run postmaster and after that system says 'Bad system call(Core
- dumped)'
-
- This indicates that you have no compiled shared memory support
- into your kernel. You need to recompile the Linux kernel to add this
- feature.
-
-
-3.3) When I try to start the Postmaster, why do I get an error of the form
- Failed Assertion("!(file != 0):(null)", File:
- "/usr/local/postgres95/src/backend/storage/file/fd.c", Line: 257)
- !(file != 0) (0)
- initdb: could not create template database
- initdb: cleaning up.
-
- Your permissions on the file /dev/null are wrong.
-
- ls -l /dev/null should give you something like:
-
- crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Oct 8 18:41 /dev/null
-
- Correct the permissions using:
-
- chmod a+rw /dev/null
-
-3.4) Why doesn't createuser work?
-
- There is a problem with Version 2.5.3 of GNU flex and createuser.
- Your options are to downgrade flex to V2.5.2, apply a patch to
- V2.5.3 (supplied in doc/README.flex) or wait for V2.5.4 which
- will fix the bug.
-
-3.5) Why do I get an error like:
- IpcMemoryCreate: memKey=155356396 , size=760632 ,
- permission=384IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(..., create, ...)
- failed: Invalid argument
-
- You haven't build IPC support into your Linux kernel. You
- will have to rebuild the kernel and switch on this option.
-
-
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-Section 4: Spurious Problems in Need of Verification
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-4.1) Why doesn't the postmaster start the first time?
-
- Pawko Olszewski <alder@amg.com.pl> reported a problem that, using
- Linux kernel 2.0.18, the postmaster wouldn't start the first time
- it is run using
-
- postmaster -B 256
-
- but if run as
-
- postmaster -B 64
-
- killed and then restarted as
-
- postmaster -B 256
-
- everything was OK.
-
- I haven't been able to repeat this problem! Nobody else has
- reported anything similar.
-
-
-****************************************************************************
-Dr. Andrew C.R. Martin, University College London & SciTech Software
-EMAIL: martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk Tel:(Work) +44(0)171 419 3890
-URL: http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/~martin (Home) +44(0)1372 275775
-****************************************************************************
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