Re: [GENERAL] UnixWare chokes

On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > or Linux) gmake barfs with:
> > Undefined symbol alloca in file bootstrap/SUBSYS.o

> The alloca calls are coming from the code generated by bison. Strange
> it would do that on Unixware. You would think bison would know if
> alloca was available, and only use it if it was. If you use 'nm' you
> will see the unresolved call in bootparse.c, no?

Bruce - I am not sure what I am looking for...so here is the stdout from
running nm (tail make.log follows the nm output).

Thanks for taking the time, I know you're rather busy.

Tom
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Symbols from /usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-6.3.2/src/backend/bootstrap/bootparse.o:

[Index] Value Size Type Bind Other Shndx Name

[1] | 0| 0|FILE |LOCL |0 |ABS |bootparse.y
[2] | 0| 0|SECT |LOCL |0 |1 |.text
[3] | 0| 0|SECT |LOCL |0 |2 |.data
[4] | 0| 0|SECT |LOCL |0 |3 |.data1
[5] | 0| 0|SECT |LOCL |0 |4 |.rodata
[6] | 0| 0|SECT |LOCL |0 |5 |.rodata1
[7] | 0| 0|SECT |LOCL |0 |6 |.bss
[8] | 0| 0|SECT |LOCL |0 |7 |.comment
[9] | 0| 4|OBJT |LOCL |0 |6 |objectid
[10] | 0| 36|FUNC |LOCL |0 |1 |__yy_bcopy
[11] | 1262| 130|OBJT |LOCL |0 |4 |Int_yycheck
[12] | 1132| 130|OBJT |LOCL |0 |4 |Int_yytable
[13] | 1086| 46|OBJT |LOCL |0 |4 |Int_yypgoto
[14] | 944| 142|OBJT |LOCL |0 |4 |Int_yypact
[15] | 898| 46|OBJT |LOCL |0 |4 |Int_yydefgoto
[16] | 756| 142|OBJT |LOCL |0 |4 |Int_yydefact
[17] | 674| 82|OBJT |LOCL |0 |4 |Int_yyr2
[18] | 592| 82|OBJT |LOCL |0 |4 |Int_yyr1
[19] | 364| 228|OBJT |LOCL |0 |4 |Int_yyrhs
[20] | 282| 82|OBJT |LOCL |0 |4 |Int_yyprhs
[21] | 0| 281|OBJT |LOCL |0 |4 |Int_yytranslate
[22] | 4| 4|OBJT |GLOB |0 |COMMON |fmgr_pl_finfo
[23] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |InsertOneNull
[24] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |InsertOneValue
[25] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |newoid
[26] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |atol
[27] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |DefineAttr
[28] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |makeString
[29] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |newNode
[30] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |build_indices
[31] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |DefineIndex
[32] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |lappend
[33] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |InsertOneTuple
[34] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |err_out
[35] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |elog
[36] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |heap_create_with_catalog
[37] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |heap_create
[38] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |CreateTupleDesc
[39] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |attrtypes
[40] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |DebugMode
[41] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |puts
[42] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |reldesc
[43] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |__flsbuf
[44] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |numattr
[45] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |closerel
[46] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |fflush
[47] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |__iob
[48] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |printf
[49] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |Quiet
[50] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |CommitTransactionCommand
[51] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |boot_openrel
[52] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |LexIDStr
[53] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |StartTransactionCommand
[54] | 4| 4|OBJT |GLOB |0 |COMMON |Int_yylval
[55] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |Int_yylex
[56] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |alloca
[57] | 0| 0|NOTY |GLOB |0 |UNDEF |Int_yyerror
[58] | 4| 4|OBJT |GLOB |0 |COMMON |Int_yychar
[59] | 4| 4|OBJT |GLOB |0 |COMMON |Int_yynerrs
[60] | 48| 2368|FUNC |GLOB |0 |1 |Int_yyparse
[61] | 0| 4|OBJT |GLOB |0 |2 |num_tuples_read

ld -r -o SUBSYS.o fmgrtab.o adt/SUBSYS.o cache/SUBSYS.o error/SUBSYS.o fmgr/SUBSYS.o hash/SUBSYS.o init/SUBSYS.o misc/SUBSYS.o mmgr/SUBSYS.o sort/SUBSYS.o time/SUBSYS.o
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-6.3.2/src/backend/utils'
cc -o postgres access/SUBSYS.o bootstrap/SUBSYS.o catalog/SUBSYS.o commands/SUBSYS.o executor/SUBSYS.o lib/SUBSYS.o libpq/SUBSYS.o main/SUBSYS.o nodes/SUBSYS.o optimizer/SUBSYS.o parser/SUBSYS.o port/SUBSYS.o postmaster/SUBSYS.o regex/SUBSYS.o rewrite/SUB
SYS.o storage/SUBSYS.o tcop/SUBSYS.o utils/SUBSYS.o ../utils/version.o -lgen -lcrypt -lld -lnsl -lsocket -ldl -lm -ltermcap -lcurses -lc89 -lc89 -Wl,-Bexport
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
alloca bootstrap/SUBSYS.o
UX:ld: ERROR: postgres: fatal error: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to postgres
gmake[1]: *** [postgres] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-6.3.2/src/backend'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2

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