Re: PG still fussy to compile on Solaris + GCC, may still need Sun ld

Hi Tom,

What do you mean, "do what it wanted?" The configure script produced a
setup that would not build a perl interface, and the error was related to
SunWS compiler options.

The larger problem was of linking the PG libs. I had a copy of Sun ld
around, but, since this (somehow, like the compiler) doesn't come with the
OS, it is a safe bet that a fair number of folks won't have it.

Sounds like half my problem was using the Perl5 that Sun provides with
Solaris 8. . .

Matt

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On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org writes:
> > 2. PG Perl interface Makefile.PL produced Sun compiler options for
> > compiling PG.c, e.g., "-KPIC", etc.
>
> We deliberately try to build the Perl interface with the same compiler
> and options that the local Perl installation claims it was built with,
> regardless of what you are building Postgres with. Experience so far
> on multi-compiler platforms is that it's much more likely that the
> interface will actually work if built that way (remember it's going to
> link into the Perl executable, not into Postgres).
>
> Did it not work if you just let the makefile do what it wanted?
>
> regards, tom lane
>