Re: static libperl?

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/CORE/libperl.a(perl.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S can not be used when
makinga shared object; recompile with -fPIC
 
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>>Does that mean that we are attempting to link against a static libperl.a?
>>I thought we were supposed to inhibit that.
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>Platypus is freebsd though, and we now think we don't need shared
>libraries on that platform:
>http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/makefiles/Makefile.freebsd.diff?r1=1.19;r2=1.20
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>I am wondering if the issue is that you need -fPIC and libperl was only
>made with -fpic.
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>It could be that platypus was only passing before because it didn't try
>to build plperl.
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Yeah. I thought we didn't want to link large static libraries into the 
backend, regardless of other issues, but I guess I should have read the 
makefile more closely.

cheers

andrew