Re: Various bugs with PG7.1 8th March snapshot on Solaris 8 INTEL

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Of course!  The test program aborts because it can't find the shared
> library.  Yet another reason to avoid AC_TRY_RUN.
>>
>> Er ... what?  Why would the test program be trying to use that shlib?

> Because -lssl is added to LIBS, the test program is linked against LIBS,
> and when the program starts it tries to locate all the dependent libraries
> (not matter if it doesn't actually have to use them).

Interesting theory, but if LIBS is broken then wouldn't the backend fail
to run at all?  How'd they manage to pass the other regress tests?

            regards, tom lane