Re: AIX - pgport/contrib resolution

"Rocco Altier" <RoccoA(at)Routescape(dot)com> writes:
> I finally noticed that when we are building the postgres.imp file, we
> are not pulling in the pgport symbols, since they are not being linked
> into the local SUBSYS.o before running mkldexport.sh.

> The solution was to suck in libpgport.a before we extract all the
> symbols out.

> A patch to that affect is attached.

I've applied this in a modified form: it seemed better to put
libpgport.a into $(OBJS), which not only gets it into the symbols
file but makes it a dependency that will force rebuilding of the
backend executable. Give me a holler if this doesn't work :-(

> port/getopt_long - needed to have optreset wrapped in HAVE_INT_OPTRESET
> regress/GNUmakefile - hopefully I backed out the change to bring in
> pgsleep well enough

> With these changes in place, I was able to complete a full build and
> test suite (including contrib).

Pushed these in too ... hope to see a green board on the AIX buildfarm
machines soon.

regards, tom lane