Re: initdb fails on AIX

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-admin-
> owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 4:22 PM
> To: CS DBA
> Cc: PG Admin
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] initdb fails on AIX
>
> CS DBA <cs_dba(at)consistentstate(dot)com> writes:
> > On 08/10/2011 01:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> This means that initdb tried to execute "postgres -V" and didn't get
> any
> >> output. What happens when you try that directly?
>
> > See below. One oddity, if I compile without the --with-openssl flag
> > (for the configure command) then it works fine.
>
> > exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program ./postgres because of the
> following
> > errors:
> > 0509-150 Dependent module libcrypto.a(libcrypto.so.0.9.7)
> > could not be loaded.
> > 0509-022 Cannot load module libcrypto.a(libcrypto.so.0.9.7).
> > 0509-026 System error: A file or directory in the path name
> > does not exist.
>
> Well, yeah. It looks like there is something pretty broken about your
> openssl installation. At the very least you need a LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or
> local equivalent) pointing to wherever libcrypto.so is hiding ... but
> a reasonable installation of openssl should have taken care of that for
> you. Possibly you could build postgres with an rpath (or local
> equivalent) pointing to openssl's library directory.

I used to have all sorts of problems with openssl on AIX (not just Postgres, but other packages I tried building with it). We had to build our own version to get it working with pretty much anything.

Brad.