Re: [INTERFACES] linking error

Tom,

Thanks.

    Randy Barrett

On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Randall W. Barrett" <rbarr@shadow.net> writes:
> > [rbarrett@localhost rbarrett]$ gcc -O3 -Wall sample1.c -I
> > /usr/local/pgsql/include/ -L /usr/local/pgsql/lib/ -lpq
>
> > /usr/local/pgsql/lib//libpq.a(fe-auth.o): In function
> > `pg_password_sendauth':
> > fe-auth.o(.text+0x17): undefined reference to `crypt'
>
> > Does anyone know iqqhow I can fix this?  Need I upgrade to 6.4?
>
> For the moment you should be able to fix it by adding -lcrypt to
> the end of the gcc command.  I've been trying to fix things so that
> it's not necessary to do that ...  but it's proving very hard to
> make it work properly everywhere :-(.  Cross-references between
> shared libraries seem not to be very portable on Unix systems yet.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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