Thread: -ltermcap needed for psql client build on OpenBSD 2.9
Doing a default ./configure (no additional options) on a freshly installed OpenBSD 2.9 results in a 'psql' binary that
isn'tlinked to termcap. The error looks like this:
$ ./psql
Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help on internal slash commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit
/usr/libexec/ld.so: Undefined symbol "_tgetent" called from psql:/usr/lib/librea
dline.so.0.0 at 0x40088964
$
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"_tgetent" is a termcap symbol, and simply appending
-ltermcap
...to the final gcc command during the 'psql' make fixes the problem. This should probably work w/o human
intervention,however. :-)
PostgreSQL rocks!
Tom Stowell
"Tom Stowell" <jts@deforest.k12.wi.us> writes:
> "_tgetent" is a termcap symbol, and simply appending
> -ltermcap
> ...to the final gcc command during the 'psql' make fixes the problem.
> This should probably work w/o human intervention, however. :-)
Indeed. The configure script should have deduced the need to do this;
could you look into why it fails to do so on your platform?
regards, tom lane
Tom Stowell writes: > "_tgetent" is a termcap symbol, and simply appending > > -ltermcap > > ...to the final gcc command during the 'psql' make fixes the problem. This should probably work w/o human intervention,however. :-) We have disqualified this as a linker bug pending OS developer feedback. See NetBSD PR 13486: http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=13486 No reponses yet. Feel free to post this to an OpenBSD forum. -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
Tom Stowell writes: > In the link you gave, it looked like provisions have been made in the > development version of PostgreSQL 7.2 to work around this. Not that I know of. > Kind of a dumb linker bug... but our *BSD friends seem to think it's a > feature. :-) We'll have to beat them into submission then. I mean, the simplest thing in the world would be to link libreadline against -lcurses, so the dependency is recorded and the users of libreadline won't have to remember it. -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter