Jason Testart <jatestart@cs.uwaterloo.ca> writes: > I'm building postgres-8.2.5 on Solaris 8 SPARC, using a gcc built (not > by me) for our environment. We have an old home-grown software > distribution/configuration management system that arranges > shared-objects and binaries are in non-standard places. So to find > them, I use -L and -R in $(CFLAGS) and $(LFLAGS) to make sure > dependencies (like krb5/ssl libraries) are found. Try adjusting 'rpathdir' in src/Makefile.global (post-configure), instead. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly

Jason Testart <jatestart@cs.uwaterloo.ca> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Try adjusting 'rpathdir' in src/Makefile.global (post-configure), instead. > That also seems to have the positive effect of getting libpq.so to find > the shared objects that it depends on. So is the fact that I need to > edit src/Makefile.global after I run configure mean that I found a bug? ;-) Seems more like a feature request: there should be a way to override rpathdir from a configure switch. We already have an enable-rpath switch, but it's just a boolean. Maybe allow configure --enable-rpath=PATH ? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match