Re: 9.1.1 build failure : postgres link fails

On 11/20/2011 09:24 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rob Sargentg <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> I just got round to updating my laptop to ubuntu-10.4 (32bit), in part
>> because I kept hitting snags while trying to configure postgres 9.1.1.
>> ubuntu-10.4 is not the latest of course and comes with gnu make 3.8.1,
>> but it seems to compile everything then fails to link postgres executable:
>> gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
>> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wformat-security
>> -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -L../../src/port -Wl,--as-needed
>> -Wl,-rpath,'/usr/local/pgsql/lib',--enable-new-dtags -Wl,-E <<TONS OF
>> DOT OHs>> ../../src/port/libpgport_srv.a -lxslt -lxml2 -lssl -lcrypto
>> -lcrypt -ldl -lm -lldap -o postgres
>> postmaster/postmaster.o: In function `PostmasterMain':
>> postmaster.c:(.text+0x48d7): undefined reference to `optreset'
>> tcop/postgres.o: In function `process_postgres_switches':
>> postgres.c:(.text+0x1312): undefined reference to `optreset'
>> utils/misc/ps_status.o: In function `set_ps_display':
>> ps_status.c:(.text+0xd4): undefined reference to `setproctitle'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> There's a similar report in the archives:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-02/msg01474.php
>
> It appears that on Ubuntu, libbsd defines those symbols, which confuses
> configure into supposing that they're provided by libc, and then the
> link fails because libbsd isn't actually linked into the postmaster.
> The question is what's pulling in libbsd though. In the previous report
> it came via libedit, which you're not using. I'd try looking in the
> config.log file to see what it was linking in the test that decided
> setproctitle was available, and then using ldd on each of those
> libraries to see which one(s) require libbsd.
>
> regards, tom lane

Will do. Then there's always trying Ubuntu-11?