On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Patrick Welche wrote:
> Believe it or not, I'm trying to compile today's cvs pgsql on a
> Debian 2.2.19 system. Compilation dies while compiling pg_dump with
>
> ../../../src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.so: undefined reference to `atexit'
>
> In the mail archives there is a mention of upgrading libc to
> libc6-dev_2.2.5-3_i386.deb. As far as I can tell, that should read
> libc6_2.2.5-3_i386.deb, and again AFAICT this system already has
> libc6_2.2.5-6_i386.deb on it. I can see atexit is undefined in libpq, and it
> is defined in /usr/lib/libc.a. For some reason /lib/libc*.so are stripped,
> so it is hard to tell, but I assume it must be the same as for
> /usr/lib/libc.a.
>
> Have any of you managed to compile postgresql on an oldstable Debian system?
>
The latest I've built was from somewhere like the beta 3 mark but yes, built it
on a Debian 2.2 installation with no library upgrades or anything. Now of
course one would need a new bison.
--
Nigel J. Andrews
