Build of postgresql 8.2 beta 2 failure

I know you're collecting results for beta testing, so I thought I'd pass on the error I ran into. This may have failed just because I'm running an old version of RedHat (7.1)

When I tried to build postgresql 8.2 beta 2, the compile failed with these errors:

gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -fpic -shared -Wl,-soname,libpq.so.5 -Wl,--version-script=exports.list fe-auth.o fe-connect.o fe-exec.o fe-misc.o fe-print.o fe-lobj.o fe-protocol2.o fe-protocol3.o pqexpbuffer.o pqsignal.o fe-secure.o md5.o ip.o wchar.o encnames.o noblock.o pgstrcasecmp.o thread.o strlcpy.o -L../../../src/port -lcrypt -Wl,-rpath,'/usr/local/sw/postgresql/postgresql-8.2b2/lib' -o libpq.so.5.0
/usr/bin/ld:exports.list:1: parse error in VERSION script
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [libpq.so.5.0] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/postgres/src/postgresql-8.2beta2/src/interfaces/libpq'

$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

$ ld --version
GNU ld 2.10.91
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty.
Supported emulations:
elf_i386
i386linux
elf_i386_glibc21

I may try poking at it more after dinner to see if I can fix it myself, but just thougt I'd get you more results. (And thanks for all the work in making all the previous versions such a great product!)

-Carl

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Carl Norden wrote:
> I know you're collecting results for beta testing, so I thought I'd pass on the error I ran into. This may have failed just because I'm running an old version of RedHat (7.1)
>
> When I tried to build postgresql 8.2 beta 2, the compile failed with these errors:
>
> gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -fpic -shared -Wl,-soname,libpq.so.5 -Wl,--version-script=exports.list fe-auth.o fe-connect.o fe-exec.o fe-misc.o fe-print.o fe-lobj.o fe-protocol2.o fe-protocol3.o pqexpbuffer.o pqsignal.o fe-secure.o md5.o ip.o wchar.o encnames.o noblock.o pgstrcasecmp.o thread.o strlcpy.o -L../../../src/port -lcrypt -Wl,-rpath,'/usr/local/sw/postgresql/postgresql-8.2b2/lib' -o libpq.so.5.0
> /usr/bin/ld:exports.list:1: parse error in VERSION script
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [libpq.so.5.0] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/postgres/src/postgresql-8.2beta2/src/interfaces/libpq'

I'd say you'd need a newer version of GNU binutils ... but really I'd
suggest upgrading to a newer version of RedHat.

> $ ld --version
> GNU ld 2.10.91

According to the Debian changelog, 2.10.91 was released in February
2001.

Or maybe the problem is in the VERSION script, which may have been
wrongly generated by an old version of another tool. Mine starts with

{ global:
PQconnectdb;
PQsetdbLogin;
PQconndefaults;
PQfinish;

Does yours look similar?

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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Carl Norden wrote:
>> /usr/bin/ld:exports.list:1: parse error in VERSION script

> I'd say you'd need a newer version of GNU binutils ... but really I'd
> suggest upgrading to a newer version of RedHat.

It's interesting that that old ld seems to understand the idea of a
version-script ... I wonder if the syntax for it has changed over time?

Our needs are pretty simple (suppress exporting non-listed symbols)
so it's possible that we could use a more backwards-compatible syntax,
if we can find out what the rules are.

regards, tom lane