On 2004-11-16, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew - Supernews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> As I originally said in IRC, I do not know why the configure script is >> trying to second-guess the ExtUtils::Embed output; however, what it is >> doing clearly produces the wrong results. > > I'm not sure why it's doing that either; taking the Embed output as gospel > would seem like a reasonable thing to do. But I'm hesitant to change code > that's been the same since PG 7.3 and therefore has survived two port > testing cycles without previous complaints.
It builds on a stock FreeBSD-4 (no ports) only because the system libperl happens to be in an accessible directory. It fails on FreeBSD-4 with perl installed from ports (an increasingly common scenario as the system perl got further behind). The original poster reported it also failing on Linux. Without a dynamic libperl it builds OK since ccdlflags doesn't appear in ldopts in that case. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com - individual and corporate NNTP services ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly