Re: Failed install - libgen.so doesn't exist

["Larry Rosenman" <lrosenman(at)pervasive(dot)com>]

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>>>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>>> Now that we have the buildfarm I think that experimentation with
>>>>> this sort of thing is a lot less risky than it used to be.  I
>>>>> think we should be working towards a project policy that
>>>>> AC_CHECK_LIB calls shalt not use "main", but must name some
>>>>> symbol exported by the expected library. If we can't find out
>>>>> what symbols the library is expected to provide, it's time to
>>>>> dike it out. 
>>> 
>>>> Agreed.  Anyone want to do the legwork?
>>> 
>>> It's not possible for any one person to do the legwork, but if
>>> several people would look to see what the story is on their
>>> platforms, we would have enough info to get started.  We need to
>>> know which libraries actually get sucked in and some plausible
>>> exported names to test for each one. 
>>> 
>>> I'll report on HPUX, Linux, and OSX later today, if no one beats me
>>> to it.
>> 
>> You want the Makefile.global LIBS line?  On BSD/OS it is:
>> 
>> 	LIBS = -lintl -lssl -lcrypto -lz -lreadline -ltermcap -lgetopt \
>> 		-lcompat -lipc -ldl -lm -lutil
> 
> Uh, can't we pull this line from all the buildfarm members and just
> aggregate all the used libraries?

the issue is whether they actually export symbols that are NEEDED.

If someone can give me what to look for, I can cover the UnixWare case
(or give me a script
to run on 'firefly').

LER


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