Re: Compile/Link Error for Postgres 8.1.0 on Solaris 8

Bhide, Rajan wrote:
> I tried to compile Postgres 8.1.0 from the source tar file with 
> following options:
>  
> ./configure --without-readline --enable-thread-safety CFLAGS=-xO4 
> -D_REENTRANT -xipo -mt -lpthread  
> CC=/export/home/uxapps/workshop/SUNWspro/bin/cc
>  
> I am getting following error:
>  
> gmake -C ../../src/timezone all
> gmake[3]: Entering directory 
> `/home/rbhide/utilities/postgres-8.1/postgresql-8.1.0/src/timezone'
> /usr/ccs/bin/ld -r -o SUBSYS.o localtime.o strftime.o pgtz.o
> gmake -C ../../src/port all
> gmake[4]: Entering directory 
> `/home/rbhide/utilities/postgres-8.1/postgresql-8.1.0/src/port'
> gmake[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> gmake[4]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/rbhide/utilities/postgres-8.1/postgresql-8.1.0/src/port'
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/rbhide/utilities/postgres-8.1/postgresql-8.1.0/src/timezone'
> /export/home/uxapps/workshop/SUNWspro/bin/cc -Xa -xO4 -D_REENTRANT 
> -xipo -mt -lpthread  -L../../src/port  -Wl,-R/usr/local/pgsql/lib  
> access/SUBSYS.o bootstrap/SUBSYS.o catalog/SUBSYS.o parser/SUBSYS.o 
> commands/SUBSYS.o executor/SUBSYS.o lib/SUBSYS.o libpq/SUBSYS.o 
> main/SUBSYS.o nodes/SUBSYS.o optimizer/SUBSYS.o port/SUBSYS.o 
> postmaster/SUBSYS.o regex/SUBSYS.o rewrite/SUBSYS.o storage/SUBSYS.o 
> tcop/SUBSYS.o utils/SUBSYS.o ../../src/timezone/SUBSYS.o 
> ../../src/port/libpgport_srv.a    -lz -lrt -lresolv -lgen -lsocket 
> -lnsl -ldl -lm  -o postgres
> *Undefined   first referenced
>  symbol         in file
> __ipo_error_recompile_file(4_1)     ../../src/timezone/SUBSYS.o
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to postgres
> *
> gmake[2]: *** [postgres] Error 1
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/rbhide/utilities/postgres-8.1/postgresql-8.1.0/src/backend'
> gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/rbhide/utilities/postgres-8.1/postgresql-8.1.0/src'
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
>  
> Could someone help on this?

Solaris 8?  

Given that you've enabled -xipo, and the error is related to ipo, I'd 
suggest dropping that option for now.   What version of the Sun 
compilers are you using here?

You might want to consider using gcc for compiler though.   In a bit of 
testing with the Studio 10 compilers against a recent gcc release, we 
found that the gcc built postgres performed better (on our test 
workload).  This was mostly because the function MemoryContextSwitchTo 
is inlined with gcc and not with the Sun compilers.  I suppose you could 
also try -xinline=%auto,MemoryContextSwitchTo, but then you need 
-xcrossfile, which conflicts with -xipo....which leads me back to using gcc.

-- Alan