Re: Symbol referencing errors

Hi,

On 2022-08-23 01:34:36 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2019-04-23 06:23:13 +0100, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> > I wonder if it's the use of -Bsymbolic that causes this (buildfarm logs
> > don't seem to go back far enough to check). (Note to original poster:
> > -Bsymbolic is there for a reason, you can't just remove it - but see
> > below.)
>
> For the record, yes, the "ld: warning: symbol referencing errors" warnings are
> due to -Bsymbolic while linking extensions. The man page says:
> "The link-editor issues warnings for undefined symbols unless -z defs overrides"
>
>
> > Since this is an ELF platform - arguably the closest thing to the
> > original reference ELF platform, at least by descent - it should not
> > require the kinds of tricks used on macOS and AIX; but we haven't done
> > the work needed to test using version scripts in place of -Bsymbolic for
> > fixing the symbol conflict problems. That ought to be a relatively
> > straightforward project for someone with access to a system to test on
> > (and I'm happy to advise on it).
>
> It's indeed trivial - the only change needed from linux is to replace
> -Wl,--version-script=... with -Wl,-M...

Patch attached. Passed check-world (without tap tests, didn't install the perl
mods) on solaris. Does anybody see a reason not to apply? Even just having
less noisy build logs seem like an advantage.

Greetings,

Andres Freund