Thread: On NetBSD, had to add -Wl,-R/usr/local/postgres/lib to the src/Makefile.global LIB variable

Priority: probably low.

Background:

  uname -a:
    NetBSD scotts 1.5 NetBSD 1.5 (GENERIC) #1: Sun Nov 19 21:42:11 MET 2000
      fvdl@sushi:/work/trees/netbsd-1-5/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386

  Postgresql version: 7.0.3

  To configure I did a `./configure --prefix=/usr/local/postgres'.
  This is straight "out-of-the-box", so I didn't apply any of the
  NetBSD pkgsrc patches.

My problem & fix:

  I had to add -Wl,-R/usr/local/postgres/lib to the
  src/Makefile.global LIB variable.  Otherwise, doing a
  'ldd /usr/local/postgres/bin/psql' after installation
  reported that it couldn't find libpg (`-lpq.2 => Not Found'
  or something like that).

Remarks:

  There's almost certainly a better way, since src/Makefile.global is
  automatically generated, but I'm still getting acclimated to NetBSD
  and Postgres build.

- Scott Williams

Scott Williams writes:

>   I had to add -Wl,-R/usr/local/postgres/lib to the
>   src/Makefile.global LIB variable.  Otherwise, doing a
>   'ldd /usr/local/postgres/bin/psql' after installation
>   reported that it couldn't find libpg (`-lpq.2 => Not Found'
>   or something like that).

In the past we have suggested to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable
appropriately.  Version 7.1 fixes this by using the option you mention.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/