Please use a more descriptive subject...
I don't use Solaris and therefore cannot help you at all with your
problem.
Plus a lot of users filter out subjects "problem" "newbie" "question"
since they are usually a lost of time to read and often not related to
one of their "strong" subject.
Etienne
"Phillip B. Bruce" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've downloaded mysql 3.23.46 version and currenlty runnig
> solaris 2.8 relase 10/00 on intel platform.
>
> I'm getting the following error during the ./configure stage in
> creating
> my makefile.
>
> checking size of char... 0
> configure: error: No size for char type.
> A likely cause for this could be that there isn't any
> static libraries installed. You can verify this by checking if you have
> libm.a
> in /lib, /usr/lib or some other standard place. If this is the problem,
> install the static libraries and try again. If this isn't the problem,
> examine config.log for possible errors. If you want to report this, use
> 'scripts/mysqlbug' and include at least the last 20 rows from
> config.log!
> #
>
> libm.a is in /usr/lib and my LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set as followed:
>
> # echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
>/opt/orca/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/opt/sfw/lib:/opt/sfw/gnome/lib:/opt/orca/lib/perl:/usr/local/rrdtool-1.0.33/lib:/usr/local/lib/glib:/usr/local/lib/mysql
>
> config.log has the following:
> # tail -20 config.log
> configure:6468: checking for off_t
> configure:6501: checking for st_rdev in struct stat
> configure:6514: gcc -c -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -DHAVE_CURSES_H
> -I/software/local/mysql-3.23.46/include -DHAVE_RWLOCK_T conftest.c 1>&5
> configure:6535: checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be
> included
> configure:6549: gcc -c -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -DHAVE_CURSES_H
> -I/software/local/mysql-3.23.46/include -DHAVE_RWLOCK_T conftest.c 1>&5
> configure:6570: checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h
> configure:6583: gcc -c -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -DHAVE_CURSES_H
> -I/software/local/mysql-3.23.46/include -DHAVE_RWLOCK_T conftest.c 1>&5
> configure:6606: checking size of char
> configure:6625: gcc -o conftest -O3 -DDBUG_OFF -DHAVE_CURSES_H
> -I/software/local/mysql-3.23.46/include -DHAVE_RWLOCK_T conftest.c
> -lpthread -lthread -lz -lcrypt -lgen -lsocket -lnsl -lm -lpthread
> -lthread 1>&5
> configure: failed program was:
> #line 6614 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
> #include <stdio.h>
> main()
> {
> FILE *f=fopen("conftestval", "w");
> if (!f) exit(1);
> fprintf(f, "%d\n", sizeof(char));
> exit(0);
> }
>
> I would appreciate any ideas on this. I have compiled mysql 3.20 version
> in the past with
> no problem but wondered if this is a bug?
>
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