The OpenBSD folks seem to know about this one also. The ld (1) manpage says:
BUGS
Shared objects are not properly checked for undefined symbols.
[...]
OpenBSD 2.9 October 14, 1993
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In the link you gave, it looked like provisions have been made in the development version of PostgreSQL 7.2 to work
aroundthis. Kind of a dumb linker bug... but our *BSD friends seem to think it's a feature. :-)
Thanks,
Tom Stowell
>>> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> 08/14/01 16:37 PM >>>
We have disqualified this as a linker bug pending OS developer feedback.
See NetBSD PR 13486:
http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=13486
No reponses yet. Feel free to post this to an OpenBSD forum.
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