Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> No objection to fixing or backpatching this, but I'm not seeing the >> argument for treating this module differently from contrib/xml2.
> Because I screwed it up accidentally for sepgsql, and I can't screw it > up for xml2 on purpose even after working fairly hard. Even after > shoving in the necessary -I switch (through a slightly different > mechanism than the one you just proposed), it still won't link, > whether -lxml2 is on the command-line or not. Huh. Links for me on Fedora 14 ... [tgl@rh3 ~]$ cd ~/pgsql/contrib/xml2 [tgl@rh3 xml2]$ make clean rm -f pgxml.so libpgxml.a rm -f xpath.o xslt_proc.o rm -rf results/ regression.diffs regression.out tmp_check/ log/ [tgl@rh3 xml2]$ make PROFILE=-I/usr/include/libxml2 gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -g -I/usr/include/libxml2 -fpic -I. -I. -I../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o xpath.o xpath.c gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -g -I/usr/include/libxml2 -fpic -I. -I. -I../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o xslt_proc.o xslt_proc.c gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -g -I/usr/include/libxml2 -fpic -shared -o pgxml.so xpath.o xslt_proc.o -L../../src/port -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-rpath,'/home/tgl/testversion/lib',--enable-new-dtags -I/usr/include/libxml2 [tgl@rh3 xml2]$ (and yes, this is in a build tree configured without --with-libxml). As far as I can tell, this *must* work this way on Linux. Maybe you were testing the xml2 case on OS X? That OS is pickier. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers