Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/CORE/libperl.a(perl.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S can not be used when
makinga shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> Does that mean that we are attempting to link against a static libperl.a?
> I thought we were supposed to inhibit that.
Platypus is freebsd though, and we now think we don't need shared
libraries on that platform:
http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/makefiles/Makefile.freebsd.diff?r1=1.19;r2=1.20
I am wondering if the issue is that you need -fPIC and libperl was only
made with -fpic.
It could be that platypus was only passing before because it didn't try
to build plperl.
regards, tom lane
