Re: initdb fails on ultra2 sparc64, freebsd 5.4

On 2005-05-21, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andrew - Supernews <andrew+nonews(at)supernews(dot)com> writes:
>> On 2005-05-21, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> initdb does not use libpq ... it might link to it,
>
>> Linking to it is enough to bring in libc_r, and pick up libc_r's versions
>> of at least some system calls. The ktrace results show this.
>
> [ shrug... ] If libc_r behaves differently than libc in an app that
> doesn't create multiple threads, I think that's an issue to be taking up
> with the libc developers not us.

Further investigation (not yet complete) suggests that this is a link order
dependency problem. It kicks in because libpq is being linked explicitly
with -lc_r (which should not be necessary or desirable), causing libc and
libc_r to be linked in the wrong order if the executable is _not_ linked
with -pthread.

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