Could you send a typical program you are trying to build on Solaris? I use
Solaris 7, Intel and I have had no problem building the mysql server and
client applications using gcc-2.95.1
>At 1:16 AM +0200 2000-01-30, Michael Widenius wrote:
>> >>>>> "marek" == marek <marek@stripped> writes:
>>
>>marek> Hi!
>>marek> I have written about this several times , still seems no progress..
>>
>>marek> Description:
>>marek> Well, the problem itself is simple and solution is also simple:
>>marek> problem) call gethostname is deprecated under solaris, it still
>>marek> exists in manpages but is no longer included in
libraries.
>>marek> How-To-Repeat:
>>marek> compile any vanilla mysql from source under solaris.
>>marek> Fix:
>>marek> solution) patch the MYSQL_DIR/sql/mysqld.cc file with following
lines
>>
>>marek> #ifdef __sun__
>>marek> #include <sys/systeminfo.h>
>>marek> #define gethostname(x,y) sysinfo(SI_HOSTNAME,x,y)
>>marek> #endif
>>
>>marek> And it will start working again as it is supposed.
>>
>>Just one question:
>>
>>I couldn't find anything in my Solaris 2.7 manual about gethostname()
>>being deprecated.
>
>
>I can't either. Besides, it would be really bizarre to prefer a non-standard
>call like sysinfo() to a standard one like gethostname(). That would require
>patching not only mysqld.cc, but *any* program that uses gethostname(), which
>would be an insane incompatibility for Sun to introduce.
>
>I'm also curious about it not being in the Solaris libraries. This is what
>I get on my Solaris 2.7 system:
>
>% cd /usr/lib
>% ar t libc.a | grep gethostname
>gethostname.o
>
>
>>
>>Anyway, the current MySQL 3.22.30 compiled cleanly on our Solaris
>>2.5.1, 2.6 and 2.7 machines.
>>
>>configure should define the -DSOLARIS flag in configure which should
>>have fixed this problem. Can you check why the following configure
>>test didn't work on your machine:
>>
>> *solaris2.5.1*)
>> echo "Enabling getpass() workaround for Solaris 2.5.1"
>> CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DHAVE_BROKEN_GETPASS -DSOLARIS -DHAVE_RWLOCK_T";
>> CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -DHAVE_RWLOCK_T"
>>
>>Regards,
>>Monty
>
>
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