Re: PostgreSQL 9.5 Alpha 1 build fail with perl 5.22

On 07/13/2015 11:53 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 7/13/2015 5:36 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> On 07/12/2015 05:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>>>>> On 07/04/2015 11:02 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>>>> It's not apparent to me how that works at all.
>>>> BTW, the .a files being linked to above are not like Unix .a static
>>>> archives - they are import library files, which I think they are only
>>>> used at link time, not run time. The path to the DLLs isn't being
>>>> hardcoded.
>>> Ah, I see.  So then what Marco is suggesting is copying a coding 
>>> pattern
>>> that does work.
>>>
>>>> Unless there is further argument I propose to commit something very 
>>>> like
>>>> Marco's suggestion for hstore_plperl, hstore_plpython and 
>>>> ltree_plpython
>>> No objection here.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> OK, I tried the attached patch.
>>
>> but when trying to build with python 3 I get this (no such problems with
>> python2, which builds and tests fine):
>>
>>     make -C hstore_plpython all
>>     make[1]: Entering directory
>>     '/home/andrew/bf64/root/HEAD/pgsql/contrib/hstore_plpython'
>>     ccache gcc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
>>     -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels
>>     -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing
>>     -fwrapv -fexcess-precision=standard -g -O2 -I../../src/pl/plpython
>>     -I/usr/include/python3.4m -I../../contrib/hstore -I. -I.
>>     -I../../src/include -I/usr/include/libxml2   -c -o hstore_plpython.o
>>     hstore_plpython.c
>>     ccache gcc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
>>     -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels
>>     -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing
>>     -fwrapv -fexcess-precision=standard -g -O2   -shared -o
>>     hstore_plpython3.dll  hstore_plpython.o  -L../../src/port
>>     -L../../src/common -Wl,--allow-multiple-definition
>>     -Wl,--enable-auto-import -L/usr/lib  -L/usr/local/lib
>>     -Wl,--as-needed   -L../../src/backend -lpostgres -L../hstore
>>     -lhstore -L../../src/pl/plpython -lplpython3
>>     -L/usr/lib/python3.4/config-3.4m -lpython3.4m -lpgcommon -lpgport
>>     -lxslt -lxml2 -lssl -lcrypto -lz -lreadline -lcrypt
>>     hstore_plpython.o: In function `hstore_to_plpython':
>>
>> /home/andrew/bf64/root/HEAD/pgsql/contrib/hstore_plpython/hstore_plpython.c:35: 
>>
>>
>>     undefined reference to `PLyUnicode_FromStringAndSize'
>>
> [cut]
>> I'd like to get that fixed before applying anything. Marco, any ideas?
>>
>> To build with python 3, set the environment like this:
>> PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3 - this can be done in the config file.
>
> I am only building with python2, but on cygwin
> there is an additional "intl" library for python3 binding
>
> $ python2-config --libs
> -lpython2.7 -ldl
>
> $ python3-config --libs
> -lpython3.4m -lintl -ldl
>

No this doesn't seem to be the problem. For some reason it's apparently 
not finding the symbol in plpython3.dll, where it should definitely 
exist, unless I'm completely off base. So I'm rather confused.

cheers

andrew