-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't linked 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.
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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.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
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