Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL on Solaris/SPARC with gcc

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, [iso-8859-2] HorАk Daniel wrote:
> I have a report from compiling PostgreSQL 6.5.3 on Solaris/SPARC with gcc/ld
> (it was not run by me, I was ask to help to solve this problem). Everything
> goes OK (with template solaris_sparc_gcc autodetected when running
> configure) but when trying to load plpgsql or other loaded module it woes
> with
>
> ERROR: Load of file /usr/local/pgsql/lib/plpgsql.so failed: ld.so.1:
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: fatal: relocation error: file
> /usr/local/pgsql/lib/plpgsql.so: symbol CurrentMemoryContext: referenced
> symbol not found
>
> it is caused by the fact that the symbol CurrentMemoryContext is not
> exported from the main executable (postmaster). The solution is to use
> "-export-dynamic" switch when linking postgres executable (it is used on
> Linux).
>
> I think it will require a new system specific makefile. The
> Makefile.solaris_sparc is done for solaric_sparc_cc template. More details
> can be send.

I ran many versions of Postgres (6.4.2, 6.5, 6.5.2, 7.0beta1) on Sun
SPARC Solaris 2.5.1, compiled with gcc 2.8.1 and never saw any such
problem...

Oleg.
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