Re: Solaris FAQ

Oh, OK.

> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > I see in makefiles/Makefile.solaris:
> > 
> > %.so: %.o
> >     $(LD) -G -Bdynamic -o $@ $<
> >                  ^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > Is that OK?
> 
> This is unrelated.  The issue at hand is that the postgres/postmaster
> executable must export its symbols so that the dynamically loaded modules
> (e.g., PL handlers) can refer back to them.  Normally this is done using
> -Wl,-E when linking the postmaster executable.  However, the Solaris
> linker does not have this option, I believe it does it by default.  So we
> have to first find out what linker is being used and then write something
> like
> 
> if {GNU ld}
> export_dynamic := -Wl,-E
> endif
> 
> > 
> > 
> >  Bruce Momjian writes:
> > > 
> > > > I have removed the new --export-dynamic item from the Solaris FAQ. 
> > > > Looks like 7.1 has it fixed already.
> > > 
> > > Not that I could tell.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/
> 
> 


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