| From: | "Tristan Partin" <tristan(at)partin(dot)io> |
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| To: | "Srirama Kucherlapati" <sriram(dot)rk(at)in(dot)ibm(dot)com>, "AIX PG user" <postgres-ibm-aix(at)wwpdl(dot)vnet(dot)ibm(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Heikki Linnakangas" <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: AIX support |
| Date: | 2025-12-10 18:37:02 |
| Message-ID: | DEUR671F27T4.2TI9SI59IJ3GR@partin.io |
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On Wed Dec 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM CST, Srirama Kucherlapati wrote:
> We encountered the following error when building without the "_static" suffix in the library name:
> Found ninja-1.12.1 at /opt/freeware/bin/ninja
> ERROR: Multiple producers for Ninja target "src/interfaces/ecpg/compatlib/libecpg_compat.a”.
> Please rename your targets.
>
> On AIX, shared libraries are archived in a way that allows multiple versions to
> coexist within the same archive. This is primarily because shared library(.so)
> is archived into .a, which leads to naming conflicts between static and shared
> libraries. To address this, we suffixed the library with “_static".
>
> However, we later tested by completely skipping the static library build, and
> this approach worked successfully since it eliminates the conflict between
> static and shared libraries. I'm working on the changes and will validate
> further on this.
Thanks for the explanation. I'm glad we can workaround this without
renaming the targets!
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Tristan Partin
Databricks (https://databricks.com)
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