[COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix cross-shlib linking in temporary installs on HPUX 10. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix cross-shlib linking in temporary installs on HPUX 10.
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Msg-id E1cV27W-0003f8-03@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix cross-shlib linking in temporary installs on HPUX 10.

Turns out this has been broken for years and we'd not noticed.  The one
case that was getting exercised in the buildfarm, or probably anywhere
else, was postgres_fdw.sl's reference to libpq.sl; and it turns out that
that was always going to libpq.sl in the actual installation directory
not the temporary install.  We'd not noticed because the buildfarm script
does "make install" before it tests contrib.  However, the recent addition
of a logical-replication test to the core regression scripts resulted in
trying to use libpqwalreceiver.sl before "make install" happens, and that
failed for lack of finding libpq.sl, as shown by failures on buildfarm
members gaur and pademelon.

There are two changes needed to fix it: the magic environment variable to
specify shlib search path at runtime is SHLIB_PATH not LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
and the shlib link command needs to specify the +s switch else the library
will not honor SHLIB_PATH.

I'm not quite sure why buildfarm members anole and gharial (HPUX 11) didn't
show the same failure.  Consulting man pages on the web says that HPUX 11
honors both LD_LIBRARY_PATH and SHLIB_PATH, which would explain half of it,
and the rather confusing wording I've been able to find suggests that +s
might effectively be the default in HPUX 11.  But it seems at least as
likely that there's just a libpq.so installed in /usr/lib on that machine;
as long as it's not too ancient, that would satisfy the test.  In any case
I do not think this patch will break HPUX 11.

At the moment I don't see a need to back-patch this, since it only matters
for testing purposes, not to mention that HPUX 10 is probably dead in the
real world anyway.

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d2ab1176160e30543da1e48f7e0d17564852b693

Modified Files
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src/Makefile.global.in     | 2 +-
src/Makefile.shlib         | 2 +-
src/bin/pg_upgrade/test.sh | 2 ++
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


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