On 11/20/2011 09:24 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Rob Sargentg <robjsargent@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I just got round to updating my laptop to ubuntu-10.4 (32bit), in part >> because I kept hitting snags while trying to configure postgres 9.1.1. >> ubuntu-10.4 is not the latest of course and comes with gnu make 3.8.1, >> but it seems to compile everything then fails to link postgres executable: >> gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith >> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wformat-security >> -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -L../../src/port -Wl,--as-needed >> -Wl,-rpath,'/usr/local/pgsql/lib',--enable-new-dtags -Wl,-E <<TONS OF >> DOT OHs>> ../../src/port/libpgport_srv.a -lxslt -lxml2 -lssl -lcrypto >> -lcrypt -ldl -lm -lldap -o postgres >> postmaster/postmaster.o: In function `PostmasterMain': >> postmaster.c:(.text+0x48d7): undefined reference to `optreset' >> tcop/postgres.o: In function `process_postgres_switches': >> postgres.c:(.text+0x1312): undefined reference to `optreset' >> utils/misc/ps_status.o: In function `set_ps_display': >> ps_status.c:(.text+0xd4): undefined reference to `setproctitle' >> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > There's a similar report in the archives: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-02/msg01474.php > > It appears that on Ubuntu, libbsd defines those symbols, which confuses > configure into supposing that they're provided by libc, and then the > link fails because libbsd isn't actually linked into the postmaster. > The question is what's pulling in libbsd though. In the previous report > it came via libedit, which you're not using. I'd try looking in the > config.log file to see what it was linking in the test that decided > setproctitle was available, and then using ldd on each of those > libraries to see which one(s) require libbsd. > > regards, tom lane Will do. Then there's always trying Ubuntu-11? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
