Tapio.Niva wrote: > we have 32-bit PostgreSQL version 8.3.4 on 64-bit RHEL4 , Postgres > itself is working as expected. > We are using PostreSQL via following perl version > ............................................ > # perl -v > This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i686-linux-thread-multi > (with 4 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) > Copyright 1987-2007, Larry Wall > Binary build 1004 [287188] provided by ActiveState > http://www.ActiveState.com > Built Sep 3 2008 11:22:08 > ............................................ > > Our problem is that DBD::Pg version 2.10.7 will not compile , > /usr/bin/ld skips all libpq files as incompatible - please see a slice > of the result below : > ............................................ > rm -f blib/arch/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so > LD_RUN_PATH="/usr/lib" gcc -shared -O2 Pg.o dbdimp.o quote.o types.o > -o blib/arch/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so \ > -L/usr/lib -lpq -lm \ > > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libpq.so when searching for > -lpq [...] > > # file /usr/lib/libpq.so.5.1 > /usr/lib/libpq.so.5.1: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, > version 1 (SYSV), stripped > # > > ............................................ > > I assume that something is mixed here (=32/64-bit) because linker claims > for incompatibility - but because there is only 1 libpq created by > Postgres install, I'm a bit lost. > Should we use some other linker version ? > > Any ideas how to proceed ? Yes, the problem must be that the compiler produces 64-bit code which cannot be linked with 32-bit code. You can either install 64-bit PostgreSQL libraries or give gcc the -m32 option so that it generates 32-bit code. Yours, Laurenz Albe
