Re: postgres/perl problem in 7.3b5

Jeff Davis <list-pgsql-general@empires.org> writes:
> gcc -O2 -fpic -I. -I/usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/CORE -I../../../src/include   -c -o
> plperl.o plperl.c
> In file included from /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/CORE/op.h:480,
>                  from /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/CORE/perl.h:2209,
>                  from plperl.c:61:
> /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/CORE/reentr.h:602: field `_crypt_struct' has incomplete
> type

Yes, this is a known problem (I believe the culprit is a bug in Perl
5.8.0 on Linux). I think Tom has decided on a reasonable workaround
for the problem, so it should be fixed in rc1.

You can workaround this by adding '-D_GNU_SOURCE' to the CFLAGS for
PL/Perl.

Cheers,

Neil

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