I wrote: > On it now, but it'll take a few minutes :-( Confirmed that either initializing ecpg_clocale or adding -fno-common allows the ecpglib build to succeed. (Testing it beyond that would require another hour or so to build the rest of the system, so I won't.)
As I said, I was already leaning to the idea that initializing the variable explicitly is better style, so I recommend we do that. regards, tom lane