Re: Re: patch to fix configure(.in) on openbsd wrt/ krb5/com_err and readline linking

From: Simon Bertrang <janus(at)errornet(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: patch to fix configure(.in) on openbsd wrt/ krb5/com_err and readline linking
Date: 2009-06-10 15:20:00
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:05:36AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> > This seems really weird. Firstly, doesn't OpenBSD use ELF? Shouldn't
> > the library pull in the indirectly needed libraries automatically? But
> > more to the point, why on *earth* would com_err depend on -lssl and
> > -lcrypto? com_err is just a standard error handling library. Why
> > would it fail to link without ssl and crypto libraries?!?!
>
> And you'd also need to explain why the spoonbill buildfarm member
> is building just fine without this ... it does have kerberos
> enabled ...
>

Indeed a good question. I'm comparing the config and build logs but
nothing jumped into my face yet. I should fire up my sparc64 to have the
same arch as spoonbill for comparison... configure flags differ too...
i'll let you know when i found out more.

Regards,
Simon

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