Re: Beta 2 build issue

Excerpts from Thom Brown's message of jue jun 10 12:20:57 -0400 2010:
> On 10 June 2010 16:48, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> >> On 10 June 2010 15:34, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >>> You need to look into why configure failed to detect that your platform
> >>> has unsetenv.
> >
> >> Is that heimdal_strlcpy patch normal too?
> >
> > Sorry, no idea what you're talking about.  (I don't do Gentoo.)
> >
>
> It's a patch applied during the ebuild process. I'm not sure what its
> role is.

I looked at it and I think it's probably harmless and not related to the
unsetenv issue. The interesting lines are:

28 -LIBS=`echo "$LIBS" | sed -e 's/-ledit//g' -e 's/-lreadline//g'`
29 +LIBS=`echo "$LIBS" | sed -e 's/-ledit//g' -e 's/-lreadline//g' -e 's/-lgssapi//g' -e 's/-lkrb5//g'`

http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/dev-db/postgresql-base/files/postgresql-base-8.4-9.0-heimdal_strlcpy.patch?view=markup

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