Re: Pl/Tcl problem

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=) writes:
> > > Nah, the problem is that the module is created like this:
> > > gcc -pipe -shared -Wl,-soname,libtcl.so.0 -o pltcl.so pltcl.o -L/usr/lib -ltcl -ldl  -lieee -lm -lc
> > > The pltcl.so module thus has soname libtcl.so.0. That leads to
> > > problems, as the same soname is used by the tcl library.
> >
> > Ugh.  Is this our fault, or Tcl's?
>
> I'm not sure. One thing which probably affects it, is that we have a
> proper soname for libtcl (in addition to the nonstandard library name),
> which we're trying to upstream. What I'm not sure of is where soname for
> the postgresql tcl module comes from - "libtcl.so.0" is not a sane one to
> use.

I'd say it's the RPM packaging, for my problem was solved as soon as I
used the source version of pltcl.so without touching Tcl or anything
else. Can't prove that though.

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