Re: [PATCHES] Linking on AIX (Was: Fix linking of OpenLDAP libraries )

Rocco Altier wrote:
>>> pg_regress normally tries to handle this by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>>> ... does AIX use that or a similar symbol?
>>>
>> The "make check" was successful in my previous testing of the last
>> patch, so it appears that AIX was paying attention to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> Anyhow, I have updated the patch to set LIBPATH (AIX's version of
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH), in pg_regress and ecpg's pg_regress.
>
> I have tested this with default config options (enable-shared,
> enable-rpath). I am starting to test the other methods as well, but
> wanted to get this out first.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH does not work on AIX - the AIX equivalent is LIBPATH.

"make check" does not seem to rely on LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and it should
work with my patch (it worked here).

If pg_regress relies on LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it would have to be changed
to set LIBPATH in the AIX case :^(

The reason why all these problems manifest now is that - up to now -
PostgreSQL used static linking on AIX and it was not necessary to
find the shared library.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe