Thread: BUG #1071: -fPIC needed for plperl & amd64

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      1071
Logged by:          Palle Girgensohn

Email address:      girgen@pingpong.net

PostgreSQL version: 7.4

Operating system:   FreeBSD

Description:        -fPIC needed for plperl & amd64

Details:

Hi,

It seems that in order to build plperl on amd64, -fPIC is needed in CFLAGS.

Here's a trivial patch that fixes this for FreeBSD. It also adds the
possibility to link plperl even if there is no shared libperl.so, only a
static libperl.a. On FreeBSD, the perl ports are usually built with
libperl.a only.

--- src/makefiles/Makefile.freebsd.orig Wed Aug 29 21:14:40 2001
+++ src/makefiles/Makefile.freebsd      Sat Jan 31 17:51:25 2004
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 endif

 DLSUFFIX = .so
-CFLAGS_SL = -fpic -DPIC
+CFLAGS_SL = -fPIC -DPIC

 %.so: %.o
 ifdef ELF_SYSTEM
@@ -23,3 +23,5 @@
 endif

 sqlmansect = 7
+
+allow_nonpic_in_shlib = yes

"PostgreSQL Bugs List" <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org> writes:
> It seems that in order to build plperl on amd64, -fPIC is needed in CFLAGS.

Makefile.freebsd is surely not the place to address such a problem...
especially not if FreeBSD runs on multiple platforms, as I thought it did.

            regards, tom lane