Still in queue.  I will apply today.

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Samuel A Horwitz wrote:
> Has this fix been applied to the cvs yet, I am still getting the same 
> error
> 
> 
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:23:13 +0200
> > From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: PostgreSQL Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: AIX compilation problems (was Re: [HACKERS] Proposal ...)
> > 
> > 
> > > > Attached is a patch to fix the mb linking problems on AIX. As a nice side 
>effect
> > > > it reduces the duplicate symbol warnings to linking libpq.so and libecpg.so
> > > > (all shlibs that are not postmaster loadable modules).
> > > 
> > > Can you explain the method behind your patch?  Have you tried -bnogc?
> > 
> > -bnogc would (probably) have been the correct switch reading the man page,
> > but the method was previously not good since it involved the following:
> > 
> > 1. create a static postgres executable from the SUBSYS.o's
> > 2. create an exports file from above
> > 3. recreate a shared postgres executable
> > 
> > This naturally had a cyclic dependency, that could not properly be 
> > reflected in the Makefile (thus a second make sometimes left you with 
> > a static postgres unless you manually removed postgres.imp).
> > 
> > Now it does:
> > postgres.imp: $(OBJS)
> > create a temporary SUBSYS.o from all $(OBJS)
> > create a postgres.imp from SUBSYS.o
> > rm temporary SUBSYS.o
> > 
> > postgres: postgres.imp
> > link a shared postgres
> > 
> > A second change was to move the import and export files to the end of the link 
>line,
> > then the linker knows not to throw a duplicate symbol warning, and keeps all 
>symbols
> > that are mentioned in the exports file (== -bnogc restricted to $(OBJS) symbols).
> > 
> > Thus now only libpq.so and libecpg.so still show the duplicate symbol warnings 
>since their
> > link line should actually not include postgres.imp . I did not see how to make a 
>difference 
> > between loadable modules (need postgres.imp) and interface libraries (do not need 
>postgres.imp),
> > but since the resulting libs are ok, I left it at that.
> > 
> > I tested both gcc and xlc including regression tests.
> > 
> > Andreas
> > 
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