Re: [PATCHES] Linking on AIX (Was: Fix linking of OpenLDAP libraries )

With the patch attached this time...

-rocco

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rocco Altier
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 2:04 PM
> To: Rocco Altier; 'Tom Lane'; 'Albe Laurenz'
> Cc: 'pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org'
> Subject: RE: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Linking on AIX (Was: Fix
> linking of OpenLDAP libraries )
>
>
> > > From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
> > > Mmm ... what of "make check"'s temporary installation? We need
> > > to have the executables search in the temporary install's libdir,
> > > *before* looking in the configured --libdir (which could easily
> > > contain an incompatible back-version libpq ...)
> > >
> > > pg_regress normally tries to handle this by setting
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> > > ... does AIX use that or a similar symbol?
> > >
> > The "make check" was successful in my previous testing of the last
> > patch, so it appears that AIX was paying attention to
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> >
> > I am testing the new version of the patch now, so will report back
> > shortly.
> >
> From testing the new patch, it did not work for the
> regression tests in the buildfarm.
> Not sure why it did work before.
>
> Anyhow, I have updated the patch to set LIBPATH (AIX's
> version of LD_LIBRARY_PATH), in pg_regress and ecpg's pg_regress.
>
> I have tested this with default config options
> (enable-shared, enable-rpath). I am starting to test the
> other methods as well, but wanted to get this out first.
>
> -rocco
>