On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:21:46AM +1000, Bojan Smojver wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 09:08 -0400, Bob Rossi wrote: > > So, > > I get a link error, because it needs to link against -lcrypt. > > What kind of system do you have? Where does the -lcrypt live on your > system?
Ubuntu 7.04, /lib/libcrypt-2.5.so > BTW, doing the pg_config --libs will not give us the right thing here. > For instance, on my system, this returns: > > -lpgport -lxslt -lxml2 -lpam -lssl -lcrypto -lgssapi_krb5 -lz -lreadline > -lcrypt -ldl -lm > > Many of these things are most definitely not needed for the client to be > linked in (i.e. the --libs gives libraries used to build PostgreSQL, not > ones required to link to pq). We have to find a better way to do this... OK, perhaps we should just add -lcrypt to the pg line? I could check to see if this works on my system if you think this is a good idea. Bob Rossi
