Tom Lane writes:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> >> IIRC, someone else reported a few days ago that the int8 tests failed on
> >> their platform if and only if openssl was linked in. Not sure what
> >> openssl could be doing to screw up long long int arithmetic, but that
> >> was the report.
>
> > Of course! The test program aborts because it can't find the shared
> > library. Yet another reason to avoid AC_TRY_RUN.
>
> Er ... what? Why would the test program be trying to use that shlib?
Because -lssl is added to LIBS, the test program is linked against LIBS,
and when the program starts it tries to locate all the dependent libraries
(not matter if it doesn't actually have to use them).
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