Philip Yarra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, before I delve too deeply into this, has anyone else tried building > 7.4.6 on Solaris 9 (sparc) ? I'm seeing build failures using Sun's cc:
> make[4]: Entering directory `/tmp/postgresql-7.4.6/src/backend/access/heap' > cc -Xa -O -v -I../../../../src/include -c -o tuptoaster.o tuptoaster.c > "tuptoaster.c", line 831: member can not have variably modified type: data > "tuptoaster.c", line 937: cannot recover from previous errors > cc: acomp failed for tuptoaster.c > Which is: > struct > { > struct varlena hdr; > char data[TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE]; > } chunk_data; > The compiler is cc: Sun C 5.6 2004/06/02 (Sun Studio 9) I think we've seen this before, and the workaround was to replace the expression that defines TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE with a hand-computed constant. Check the archives. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster