I'm posting this report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] too. I aware the fact that I posted mostly the same report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about two month ago. Though, I had a mistake on it. I needed -Wl, before -bnoentry to support gcc.
PoorTom ----- Forwarded by Tomoyuki Niijima/Japan/IBM on 2002/09/02 08:33 ----- Tomoyuki Niijima To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002/08/30 02:06 cc: From: Tomoyuki Niijima/Japan/IBM@IBMJP Subject: failed to build libpq.so on AIX 4 and 5/I have a solution Your name : Tomoyuki Niijima Your email address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Configuration --------------------- Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) : any model of RS/6000 Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) : AIX 4.3.3 or later PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-7.2.1): PostgreSQL-7.2.1 Compiler used (example: gcc 2.95.2) : gcc 2.9 Please enter a FULL description of your problem: ------------------------------------------------ I tried to build PostgreSQL on AIX 4 and 5 but failed to build libpq.so. Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a concise reproducible example, if at all possible: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ./configure --enable-multibyte=EUC_JP --with-CC=gcc make If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below: --------------------------------------------------------------------- You need to specify -bnoentry option for ld when you build shared library, on AIX 4 or later. Here is a patch. This works for xlc too. *** ./src/Makefile.shlib.org Mon Nov 12 04:20:53 2001 --- ./src/Makefile.shlib Fri Aug 30 01:42:17 2002 *************** *** 320,326 **** # AIX case $(shlib): lib$(NAME).a $(MKLDEXPORT) lib$(NAME).a > lib$(NAME)$(EXPSUFF) ! $(COMPILER) -Wl,-H512 -Wl,-bM:SRE -Wl,-bI: $(top_builddir)/src/backend/$(POSTGRES_IMP) -Wl,-bE:lib$(NAME)$(EXPSUFF) -o $@ $< $(LDFLAGS) $(SHLIB_LINK) $(LDFLAGS_SL) endif # PORTNAME == aix --- 320,326 ---- # AIX case $(shlib): lib$(NAME).a $(MKLDEXPORT) lib$(NAME).a > lib$(NAME)$(EXPSUFF) ! $(COMPILER) -Wl,-H512 -Wl,-bM:SRE -Wl,-bI: $(top_builddir)/src/backend/$(POSTGRES_IMP) -Wl,-bE:lib$(NAME)$(EXPSUFF) -o $@ $< $(LDFLAGS) $(SHLIB_LINK) $(LDFLAGS_SL) -Wl,-bnoentry endif # PORTNAME == aix ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])