Re: Re: patch to fix configure(.in) on openbsd wrt/ krb5/com_err and readline linking

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:05:36AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > This seems really weird. Firstly, doesn't OpenBSD use ELF? Shouldn't
> > the library pull in the indirectly needed libraries automatically? But
> > more to the point, why on *earth* would com_err depend on -lssl and
> > -lcrypto? com_err is just a standard error handling library.  Why
> > would it fail to link without ssl and crypto libraries?!?!
>
> And you'd also need to explain why the spoonbill buildfarm member
> is building just fine without this ... it does have kerberos
> enabled ...
>

Indeed a good question.  I'm comparing the config and build logs but
nothing jumped into my face yet.  I should fire up my sparc64 to have the
same arch as spoonbill for comparison...  configure flags differ too...
i'll let you know when i found out more.

Regards,
Simon