Re: Segfault related to pg_authid when running initdb from git master

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Segfault related to pg_authid when running initdb from git master
Date: 2010-12-15 19:51:04
Message-ID: 1292442604-sup-2163@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Peter Geoghegan's message of mié dic 15 16:40:41 -0300 2010:
> > Before that, have you tried the old standby of "make distclean" and a
> > full rebuild/reinstall?  The lack of buildfarm confirmation makes me
> > highly suspicious that there's any real problem.
>
> That's fixed both problems. I should have tried it much sooner. I
> guess that even though the binaries built were new, they were somehow
> linked with one or more older, "release" object files. Thanks.

This is probably caused by failure to use the --enable-depend configure
switch. I think we should try to make that the default on platforms
that support it. It seems silly not to use it.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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