Bug #490: Can't compile PostgreSQL 7.1.3 with Solaris 2.6

Holger Mittewald (hrmitter@lsd.franken.de) reports a bug with a severity of 1
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Short Description
Can't compile PostgreSQL 7.1.3 with Solaris 2.6

Long Description
Trying to compile postgresql under solaris 2.6 configure stops claiming about an unknown symbol "optreset". I wasn't
ableto fix the problem. 

Sample Code
The last lines of config.log:

[..]
configure:7459: checking for optreset
configure:7471: gcc -o conftest      conftest.c -lposix4 -lz -lresolv -lgen -lns
l -lsocket -ldl -lm -lreadline -ltermcap  1>&5
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
optreset                            /var/tmp/ccSZ2P6u.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 7464 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
#include <unistd.h>
int main() {
extern int optreset; optreset = 1;
; return 0; }
configure:7497: checking test program
configure:7506: gcc -o conftest      conftest.c -lposix4 -lz -lresolv -lgen -lns
l -lsocket -ldl -lm -lreadline -ltermcap  1>&5
configure: failed program was:
#line 7502 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
int main() { return 0; }


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