Re: 7.4beta4: make check broken?

tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
> Christoph Becker <CGBecker@gmx.de> writes:
>> ============== creating database "regression"         ==============
>> /usr/local/src/postgresql-7.4beta4/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/install//opt/doka//pgsql/bin/createdb:
>> relocation error:
>> /us/local/src/postgresql-7.4beta4/src/test/regress/./tmp_check/install//opt/doka//pgsql/bin/createdb:
>> undefined symbol: get_proname
>> pg_regress: createdb failed
>
> Hm.  I have a feeling your temp installation is somehow linking to an
> old version of libpq, because that's the most common reason for
> link-time failures in "make check".  But I don't understand the
> reference to 'get_proname'.  There is no occurrence of that string in
> either current sources or any recent PG release.

I got the same error with beta1, but the symbol was "get_progname"
not "get_proname". Perhaps the above is a typo. I also thought the thing
was somehow using my current 7.3 install when linking the 7.4 tests.
Didn't happen with beta2, but could be because then I had beta1 installed.