On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 18:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rafal Pietrak <rafal@zorro.isa-geek.com> writes:
> > postmaster/postmaster.o: In function `PostmasterMain':^M
> > postmaster.c:(.text+0x4bc8): undefined reference to `optreset'^M
> > tcop/postgres.o: In function `process_postgres_switches':^M
> > postgres.c:(.text+0x1422): undefined reference to `optreset'^M
> > utils/misc/ps_status.o: In function `set_ps_display':^M
> > ps_status.c:(.text+0xd4): undefined reference to `setproctitle'^M
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status^M
> > make[2]: *** [postgres] Error 1^M
>
> We've heard of this happening as a result of libedit pulling in libbsd,
> which provides (broken) versions of these symbols and thus confuses
> configure into thinking they're present. The "-ledit" in your link line
> suggests that you are linking to libedit, but the rest of that is just
> guesswork. I'd suggest installing readline to see if the problem goes
> away.
>
> Here's a previous report:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2011-11/msg00790.php
>
> regards, tom lane
Thenx. The readline trail worked for me too, but in a somewhat different
way (I haven't read the full thread before trying):
1. in my case: this is debian-squeeze, not ubuntu; but this should not
really matter.
2. initially, I've pulled all the build dependencies for postgresql-8.4,
as they are in debian source package. This installed libedit-dev, and
consequently my initial failure.
3. so after having this libedit/readline hint, I've purged libedit-dev,
and installed readline6-dev instead (didn't have to build it from
sources).
4. this didn't help
5. but running ./configure --with-readline did. and the build ended up
cleanly.
What puzzles me, is that in "configure.in:675", the selection of libedit
v.s. readline is commented with a timemark dated 2004 - since then
things should have changed in those libs, shouldn't they? And then, the
comment proceeds a test which is only taken on win32 architecture, but
then follows libedit preference for everybody. Was this libedit/readline
issue just the case for win32? and is it still valid?
-R