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2.12.3.1. Solaris 2.7/2.8 Notes

Normally, you can use a Solaris 2.6 binary on Solaris 2.7 and 2.8. Most of the Solaris 2.6 issues also apply for Solaris 2.7 and 2.8.

MySQL 3.23.4 and above should be able to detect new versions of Solaris automatically and enable workarounds for the following problems.

Solaris 2.7 and 2.8 have some bugs in the include files. You may see the following error when you use gcc: 

/usr/include/widec.h:42: warning: `getwc' redefined
/usr/include/wchar.h:326: warning: this is the location of the previous
definition

If this occurs, you can fix the problem by copying /usr/include/widec.h to .../lib/gcc-lib/os/gcc-version/include and changing line 41 from this: 

#if     !defined(lint) && !defined(__lint)

To this: 

#if     !defined(lint) && !defined(__lint) && !defined(getwc)

Alternatively, you can edit /usr/include/widec.h directly. Either way, after you make the fix, you should remove config.cache and run configure again.

If you get the following errors when you run make, it is because configure did not detect the curses.h file (probably because of the error in /usr/include/widec.h): 

In file included from mysql.cc:50:
/usr/include/term.h:1060: syntax error before `,'
/usr/include/term.h:1081: syntax error before `;'

The solution to this problem is to do one of the following:

  1. Configure with CFLAGS=-DHAVE_CURSES_H CXXFLAGS=-DHAVE_CURSES_H ./configure.

  2. Edit /usr/include/widec.h as indicated in the preceding discussion and re-run configure.

  3. Remove the #define HAVE_TERM line from the config.h file and run make again.

If your linker cannot find -lz when linking client programs, the problem is probably that your libz.so file is installed in /usr/local/lib. You can fix this problem by one of the following methods:

  • Add /usr/local/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

  • Add a link to libz.so from /lib.

  • If you are using Solaris 8, you can install the optional zlib from your Solaris 8 CD distribution.

  • Run configure with the --with-named-z-libs=no option when building MySQL.


User Comments

Posted by [name withheld] on March 17 2004 3:20pm[Delete] [Edit]

Using Solaris 9, I installed the gcc compiler available on the Software Companion CD (installed under /opt/sfw). I also set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /opt/swf/lib, per the installation notes for Solaris.

The compilation phase did not work, producing some error (which I've now lost, but it had to do with processing within the readline subdirectory).

I then downloaded the gcc compiler from www.sunfreeware.com, installed it, and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/lib.

Configured as follows:
CC=gcc CFLAGS="-O3" \
CXX=gcc CXXFLAGS="-O3 -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti" \
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --with-low-memory \
--enable-assembler

Much better.

Notice that I did not include the -m64 flags in CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS. They may have worked, but I didn't try them.

BTW, I wouldn't need to do this compilation at all if MySQL binary distributions for Solaris came with lib/libmysqlclient.so


Posted by Charles Richmond on November 1 2004 8:29pm[Delete] [Edit]

Solaris 8 does have the libmysqlclient .so and .a libs in the binary mysql provided.

# ls lib/mysql/libmysqlclient*
lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10
lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.la lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10.0.0
lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so
#
# uname -a
SunOS ck 5.8 Generic_117350-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2
#

Posted by Darryl Friesen on November 18 2004 1:29pm[Delete] [Edit]

Not true. The binary package I just downloaded did NOT include the .so files:

# pwd
/usr/local/mysql-standard-4.1.7-sun-solaris2.8-sparc

# ls lib/libmysqlclient*
lib/libmysqlclient.a lib/libmysqlclient_r.a

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