I see what you are saying now. libpgport is not a shared library - because of AIX's funny linking, I had not noticed that before.
You propose making it similar to libpq. By that do you mean breaking it into 2 separate diretories - backend/libpq & interfaces/libpq - so that we create the libraries pgport and pgport_srv from different directories - possibly using the existing backend/port and port? If you mean something else, let me know so that I might persue that path. In the mean time, an AIX specific patch(hack) would be to shove -lpgport into BE_DLLLIB in Makefile.aix - patch attached. Thanks -rocco (desperate to get AIX green on buildfarm) > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 7:34 PM > To: Rocco Altier > Cc: Patches (PostgreSQL) > Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Regression - GNUmakefile - pg_usleep > > > "Rocco Altier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This time I actually have the patches :-) > > I've applied the parts of this that add -lm to contrib > modules, but not > the parts that add -lpgport. That's because libpgport is not built to > be relocatable, and so including it fails hard on platforms that care: > > /usr/ccs/bin/ld +h libtsearch2.sl.0 -b +b > /home/postgres/testversion/lib dict_ex.o dict.o snmap.o > stopword.o common.o prs_dcfg.o dict_snowball.o dict_ispell.o > dict_syn.o wparser.o wparser_def.o ts_cfg.o tsvector.o > rewrite.o crc32.o query.o gistidx.o tsvector_op.o rank.o > ts_stat.o snowball/SUBSYS.o ispell/SUBSYS.o > wordparser/SUBSYS.o -L../../src/port -L/usr/local/lib > -lpgport -lm `gcc -L../../src/port -Wl,-z -Wl,+b > -Wl,/home/postgres/testversion/lib -print-libgcc-file-name` > -o libtsearch2.sl.0 > /usr/ccs/bin/ld: DP relative code in file > ../../src/port/libpgport.a(exec.o) - shared library must be position > independent. Use +z or +Z to recompile. > make: *** [libtsearch2.sl.0] Error 1 > > We will need to either eliminate the dependencies on libpgport, or > use the extra-compilation technique used in, eg, libpq. > > regards, tom lane > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster