BUG #1097: Make failure

I have never seen that before. Looks like there is a mix of 64-bit and
32-bit object files. Not sure on the cause.

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PostgreSQL Bugs List wrote:

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 1097
Logged by: Stewart McKenna

Email address: stewart.mckenna@eds.com

PostgreSQL version: 7.4

Operating system: Debian 'woody3' on Ultra Sparc

Description: Make failure

Details:

Trying to 'make' the postgreSQL package. I got the following error. Is there
some way aroun this problem ?

ake -C access all
make[3]: Entering directory
`/home/jzbnvs/postgresql-7.4.1/src/backend/access'
make -C common SUBSYS.o
make[4]: Entering directory
`/home/jzbnvs/postgresql-7.4.1/src/backend/access/common'
/usr/bin/ld -r -o SUBSYS.o heaptuple.o indextuple.o indexvalid.o printtup.o
scankey.o tupdesc.o
/usr/bin/ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf64-sparc
(heaptuple.o) to format elf32-sparc (SUBSYS.o) is not supp
orted
make[4]: *** [SUBSYS.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/home/jzbnvs/postgresql-7.4.1/src/backend/access/common'
make[3]: *** [common-recursive] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/jzbnvs/postgresql-7.4.1/src/backend/access'
make[2]: *** [access-recursive] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jzbnvs/postgresql-7.4.1/src/backend'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jzbnvs/postgresql-7.4.1/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2

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"PostgreSQL Bugs List" <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org> writes:

/usr/bin/ld -r -o SUBSYS.o heaptuple.o indextuple.o indexvalid.o printtup.o
scankey.o tupdesc.o
/usr/bin/ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf64-sparc
(heaptuple.o) to format elf32-sparc (SUBSYS.o) is not supp
orted

Hmm. It sounds like your platform wants some special switches to ld to
enable building 64-bit stuff. I have no idea what they are, however.
What were you using for CFLAGS to get 64-bit compilations?

regards, tom lane

PostgreSQL Bugs List wrote:

/usr/bin/ld -r -o SUBSYS.o heaptuple.o indextuple.o indexvalid.o
printtup.o scankey.o tupdesc.o
/usr/bin/ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format
elf64-sparc (heaptuple.o) to format elf32-sparc (SUBSYS.o) is not
supported

You need to run

$ sparc32 make

64-bit sparc is not really supported on Debian yet.