I managed to narrow down the exact cause of the postgresql configure script failing to detect that "long long" is 64 bits on the Sparc.
It seems that libcrypto.so is dynamically exporting __muldi3 and other symbols that it pulls in from libgcc.a, but v[89]/libcrypto.so do not contain these symbols. So the conftest.c compiles, but fails to load because of a missing symbol. My proposed solution (bug 167831) is to use a simple version script that makes symbols starting with "__" local when linking libcrypto.so on the Sparc. This problem may occur with any other library that provides different versions for v8/v9. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
