Re: Compilation of postgres 13.4+ source fails to find some of its own libraries

Hi,

On Sat, Jan 01, 2022 at 01:58:33AM -0500, Matt Zinicola wrote:
> I've been a user of PostgreSQL for many, many years now. I tend to
> compile from source, in /usr/local/src.. My current postgresql server is
> running Fedora 35. Beginning with Postgres 13.4 (and 14.0 and 14.1) the
> postgres compilation process has begun failing, complaining about several
> libraries (specifically libpgtypes.pc, libecpg.pc, libpq.pc and
> libecpg_compat.pc).
>
> Since all of these are contained witihin the source distribution itself,
> why is the make process unable to find them?
>
> I attempted adding them via a configuration option ( full configure
> invocation is ./configure
> --with-libraries=/usr/local/src/postgresql-13.4/src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib,/usr/local/src/postgresql-13.4/src/interfaces/ecpg/compatlib,/usr/local/src/postgresql-13.4/src/interfaces/libpq,/usr/local/src/postgresql-13.4/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib),
> but it does not work.
>
> Apologies if I'm overlooking something "simple" here, I'm just a bit taken
> aback by why the compilation process suddenly as of 13.4has begun failing
> for this reason. Is this a mistake in one of the build scripts somewhere
> or... ?

1. Go back and try to build 13.3 using the same configure options, does
that still work?

2. Show us the actual build failures, "does not work" is not enough
information.

Michael

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