Re: More buildfarm stuff

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org> writes:
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>>On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:11:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>>None of those patches are necessary; if they were, we'd be seeing the
>>>failures at the build stage, not at runtime.
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>>Anyone have any ideas on why octopus is failing then?
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>Well, the original report said that we needed to link the backend with
>libc_r instead of libc to make libpython happy.  If there's not a
>separate "libpthread" on your machine then that may well be the case.
>The question then is whether we are prepared to do that (and risk
>unknown consequences in performance and stability) to support plpython.
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Wouldn't it be odd if that were the case for python but not perl?

cheers

andrew