Hi,
On 2016-11-16 19:29:41 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Michael Paquier
> <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> diff --git a/contrib/pgcrypto/Makefile b/contrib/pgcrypto/Makefile
> >> index 805db76..ddb0183 100644
> >> --- a/contrib/pgcrypto/Makefile
> >> +++ b/contrib/pgcrypto/Makefile
> >> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> >> # contrib/pgcrypto/Makefile
> >>
> >> -INT_SRCS = md5.c sha1.c sha2.c internal.c internal-sha2.c blf.c rijndael.c \
> >> +INT_SRCS = md5.c sha1.c internal.c internal-sha2.c blf.c rijndael.c \
> >> fortuna.c random.c pgp-mpi-internal.c imath.c
> >> INT_TESTS = sha2
> >
> > I would like to do so. And while Linux is happy with that, macOS is
> > not, this results in linking resolution errors when compiling the
> > library.
>
> Well, I'm running macOS and it worked for me. TBH, I don't even quite
> understand how it could NOT work. What makes the symbols provided by
> libpgcommon any different from any other symbols that are part of the
> binary? How could one set work and the other set fail? I can
> understand how there might be some problem if the backend were
> dynamically linked libpgcommon, but it's not. It's doing this:
With -Wl,--as-neeeded the linker will dismiss unused symbols found in a
static library. Maybe that's the difference?
Andres