Re: Compiling tsearch2 on AIX

Tom:

Got it working!

I had to modify this line in the tsearch2 Makefile
from
SHLIB_LINK := -lm
to
SHLIB_LINK := -lm -lpgport

it works like a charm!

thanks for your help!

On 5/18/05, Mag Gam <magawake(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Tom!
>
> I managed to get the cvs version and I made more progress compiling tsearch2
>
> Here is where it errors out.
>
>
>
> touch libtsearch2.a
> ../../src/backend/port/aix/mkldexport.sh libtsearch2.a > libtsearch2.exp
> gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wendif-labels
> -fno-strict-aliasing -Wl,-bnoentry -Wl,-H512 -Wl,-bM:SRE -o
> libtsearch2.so libtsearch2.a -L../../src/port -L../../src/port -lm
> -Wl,-bI:../../src/backend/postgres.imp -Wl,-bE:libtsearch2.exp
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .get_share_path
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pg_strncasecmp
> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pg_strcasecmp
> ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information.
> collect2: ld returned 8 exit status
> gmake: *** [libtsearch2.so] Error 1
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA
>
>
> On 5/17/05, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Mag Gam <magawake(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > > I am trying to compile PostgreSQL 8.0.3/tsearch2 contrib module on AIX 5.2 ML 3
> >
> > > /opt/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.3.2/include/stdio.h:484:
> > > error: conflicting types for `fgetpos64'
> > > /opt/freeware/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/3.3.2/include/stdio.h:310:
> > > error: previous declaration of `fgetpos64'
> >
> > I'm just guessing, but this smells to me like a problem with largefile-
> > vs-not-largefile support. We discovered long ago that when pg_config.h
> > defines _FILE_OFFSET_BITS or _LARGEFILE_SOURCE, it's critical that the
> > compiler see that *before* it includes stdio.h. Unfortunately it seems
> > this hard-won knowledge didn't get propagated into tsearch2 until just
> > recently :-(. Try applying the tsearch2 changes linked here:
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-05/msg00068.php
> > and let us know if that helps. I have not back-patched these changes
> > into existing release branches, but if it turns out to address a real
> > problem-seen-in-the-field then that should get done ...
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
>