Re: Bug in Makefile.shlib

Hi Tom,

Thanks fr your reply.. Not sure I understood!
I've tried your hack with no luck. Further more, README in
perl/ext/Dynaloader says it has to be static to be effective.

What concerns me more is that with same perl (5.6.1) it compiles ok with
722.

Regards
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 17:14:13 -0400
> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> To: ohp@pyrenet.fr
> Cc: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>,
>      pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Bug in Makefile.shlib 
> 
> Olivier PRENANT <ohp@pyrenet.fr> writes:
> > The problem is that at link time, ld complains about text segment beeing
> > written to in Dynaloader.
> > I agree this sounded stupid. But I can't think of something else.
> > This is with perl-5.6.1 FWIW
> 
> Ah.  This is a bug in Perl's build process: even if you request a shared
> library, it builds DynaLoader as static code.  My own notes about
> installing perl 5.6.1 on HPUX read:
> 
>     make
>     fix DynaLoader.o per below
>     make test
>     make install
> 
> At least in 5.6.1, even with "build shared" request, DynaLoader.o is not
> made with +z, which will cause plperl to fail.  To fix, simply go into
> perl-5.6.1/ext/DynaLoader, rm DynaLoader.o, and "make".  I wonder why
> toplevel makefile thinks it's okay to build DynaLoader static??
> 
> 
> I'm just now in the middle of installing Perl 5.8.0, and it seems that
> the oversight has been fixed; DynaLoader is now built sharable:
> 
> cc -c   -Ae -D_HPUX_SOURCE -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings -DDEBUGGING -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64-g   -DVERSION=\"1.04\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.04\" +Z "-I../.."  -DPERL_CORE -DLIBC="/lib/libc.sl"
DynaLoader.c
> 
> There seem to be some other problems --- 7.2 plperl dumps core for me
> even with the above fix.  Still looking into that (I'm sorta hoping that
> 5.8.0 will fix it, but won't know for a little while...)
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 

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