Re: FC3 broken with HEAD

Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> The recent ld --as-needed patch seems to break psql on FC3: it fails to 
> start with "symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libreadline.so.4: undefined 
> symbol: BC". You can see this on the FC3 build farm machine:

Confirmed here on a pretty-nearly-up-to-date FC3 machine.

> So, it seems we'll need to back out the patch. I think we could probably 
> still use --as-needed for the rest of the tree (just not with psql), but 
> that's pretty ugly, and I'm nervous using a linker flag in part of the 
> tree that we know is broken for another part.

Yeah, we will.  Please file a bugzilla entry for this though --- I
concur that it is a linker bug.
        regards, tom lane