I'm interested in some guidance on how to best deal with the following issue. I'm building postgres-8.2.5 on Solaris 8 SPARC, using a gcc built (not by me) for our environment. We have an old home-grown software distribution/configuration management system that arranges shared-objects and binaries are in non-standard places. So to find them, I use -L and -R in $(CFLAGS) and $(LFLAGS) to make sure dependencies (like krb5/ssl libraries) are found. The problem is, the Makefile.shlib doesn't arrange to have the $(CFLAGS) passed to gcc, since maybe it assumes gcc on Solaris SPARC doesn't need it? So, while psql can find the shared objects, libpq can't, because libpq doesn't have the rpath I gave it! An example: % env | grep FLAGS LDFLAGS=-R/software/readline-5.2/lib:/software/gcc-3.4.5/lib:/software/openssl-0.9.8_runtime/lib:/software/krb5-1.6/lib CFLAGS=-R/software/readline-5.2/lib:/software/gcc-3.4.5/lib:/software/openssl-0.9.8_runtime/lib:/software/krb5-1.6/lib Then I configure && make && make install, only to find: % ldd -s libpq.so | head find object=libssl.so.0.9.8; required by ./libpq.so search path=/software/gcc-3.4.5_runtime/lib:/software/postgresql-8.2/lib (RPATH from file ./libpq.so) trying path=/software/gcc-3.4.5_runtime/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 trying path=/software/postgresql-8.2/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 search path=/usr/lib (default) trying path=/usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 libssl.so.0.9.8 => (file not found) yet from 'ldd -s psql': find object=libssl.so.0.9.8; required by psql search path=/software/readline-5.2/lib:/software/gcc-3.4.5_runtime/lib:/software/openssl-0.9.8_runtime/lib:/software/krb5-1.6/lib:/softwar e/postgresql-8.2/lib (RPATH from file psql) trying path=/software/readline-5.2/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 trying path=/software/gcc-3.4.5_runtime/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 trying path=/software/openssl-0.9.8_runtime/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 libssl.so.0.9.8 => /software/openssl-0.9.8_runtime/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 If I hack Makefile.shlib in pgsql/src: ifeq ($(PORTNAME), solaris) ifeq ($(GCC), yes) LINK.shared = $(CC) -shared $(CFLAGS) # ^^^^^^^^^ I added this. else LINK.shared = $(CC) -G $(CFLAGS) # CFLAGS added for X86_64 then it's all good. Would this be considered a bug, or would my environment be considered "unsupported"??? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster