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From: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
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Subject: Re: question about compile in SunOs 4.1.3
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jung94@champ.delta.co.kr (Jung Byoung WAn) writes:
> I would like to install postgres in my system ( Sparc20,SunOs 4.1.3),
> But I couldn't compile it. 
> "/media/mmsystems/postgres/src/backend/obj/execnodes.gen", line 18: syntax error at or near variable name "ii_FuncIndexInfo"

for some reason this sounded familiar so i searched the mailing list
archive for things that mentioned 'awk' (the main system utility used
to generate those files).  i dug this up:

|From: postarch (Postgres Mailing Archive)
|Subject: Re: Problem in Installing Postgres-v4.0
|To: postgres@postgres.berkeley.edu
|Reply-To: mer@postgres.berkeley.edu
|Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 23:00:34 PDT
|
|you write:
|> Yesterday, I got postgres-v4r0.tar.Z from Kyoto University 
|> and tried to install it on a SPARCstation IPX. However, 
|> "~postgres/newconf/Make install" fails.
|> 
|> Error messages are generated while compiling "inh.c".
|> They indicate that ~postgres/src/lib/H/nodes/*.gen 
|> have errors. 
|> 
|> The errors in *.gen files seem to be in lines defining 
|> variables of specific types, such as FuncIndexInfoPtr, 
|> IndexInfoPtr, ExprContext, TupleTableSlot, ScanDirection, 
|> HeapTuple, RelationInfo, TupleCount, etc.
|> 
|> Did anyone find bugs in the program that generates *.gen 
|> (~postgres/src/lib/Gen/*.sh) ?
|
|One thing you should watch out for is that the awk and sed scripts
|that we ship with postgres don't work with the international versions
|of awk and sed.  If you are getting errors in the .gen files, I'd
|be willing to bet serious money that this is your problem.  Use the
|standard versions of these unix utilities (assuming you have them
|available to you).
|
|Jeff Meredith
|mer@postgres.berkeley.edu

(aha.  this would explain why the last message like this came from
korea, too..)

i would hazard a guess that gnu awk works better; you can try hacking
on src/backend/nodes/Gen*.sh to use that instead.
--
  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
  aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
                        |  Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

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