Re: "undefined reference" error when compiling

[Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>]

It seems to be looking for libpostgres.a, which is created as part of a 
standard build ... which takes me back to my earlier suggestion of doing 
a full configure/make to give yourself the right enviroment to build 
extensions.

cheers

andrew


Mark Miller wrote:

> Thanks,
>
> I have to say that it is worlds different than what I'm used to. But it's
> never stopped me before ;). I did find why it was pointing to the wrong dir,
> the pgxs/src/Makefile.global had the following line in it:
>
> prefix := /usr/local/pgsql
>
> Which likely has something to do with the build, since I did a windows
> install the default might not get set. I did set prefix when I ran configure
> and make install, but since I only installed includes it make sense that the
> file didn't get updated. But sadly, even though I found this and the output
> has changed (see below), it did not fix the problem. It still fails with the
> following error:
>
> cannot find -lpostgres
>
> Which brings us back to your suggestion of a clean build from scratch. It
> seems the only solution unless I want to walk thru every possible place
> where I'll run into these problems.
>
> What is "-lpostgres" anyway?
>
> --------------------- make output --------------------------------------
>
> $ make
> dlltool --export-all --output-def filesize.def filesize.o
> dllwrap -o filesize.dll --def filesize.def filesize.o
> c:/Progra~1/PostgreSQL/8.0/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/../../src/utils/dllinit.o
> -L/c/progra~1/postgresql/8.0/bin -lpostgres
> c:\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc-lib\mingw32\3.2.3\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe:
> cannot find -lpostgres
> c:\MinGW\bin\dllwrap.exe: c:\MinGW\bin\gcc exited with status 1
> make: *** [filesize.dll] Error 1
>
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>
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