Patrick Welche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 04:16:37PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> What exactly does xml2-config --libs produce on your machine?
> -Wl,-R/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lxml2 -lz -lpthread -lm > but because I added the -R - it isn't the default as distributed, Hm. This doesn't seem like a bright way to be forcing an rpath. The problem is that you have no idea what search order will result when this is combined with any -R we ourselves might have included or will later include into our LDFLAGS. As an example of possible breakage, suppose you are trying to install PG into /opt/postgres and there is already an old version of PG in /usr/local. You've got about a fifty-fifty chance whether the produced binaries will search /opt/postgres/lib before or after /usr/local/lib --- and the second way is wrong, because they'd find the old version of libpq.so. Ugly as it sounds, I think you'd be better off setting the entire Postgres rpath by hand by specifying LDFLAGS to configure. The other thing that's a bit strange here is the reference to libpthread --- does libxml2 really depend on that? I'd definitely advise against linking libpthread into the backend if you can avoid it. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq