Hi Tom, What do you mean, "do what it wanted?" The configure script produced a setup that would not build a perl interface, and the error was related to SunWS compiler options. The larger problem was of linking the PG libs. I had a copy of Sun ld around, but, since this (somehow, like the compiler) doesn't come with the OS, it is a safe bet that a fair number of folks won't have it. Sounds like half my problem was using the Perl5 that Sun provides with Solaris 8. . . Matt Matt Benjamin President/CTO The Linux Box 206 South Fifth Ave. Suite 150 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 tel. 734-761-4689 fax. 734-769-8938 pgr. 734-431-0118 On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Tom Lane wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > 2. PG Perl interface Makefile.PL produced Sun compiler options for > > compiling PG.c, e.g., "-KPIC", etc. > > We deliberately try to build the Perl interface with the same compiler > and options that the local Perl installation claims it was built with, > regardless of what you are building Postgres with. Experience so far > on multi-compiler platforms is that it's much more likely that the > interface will actually work if built that way (remember it's going to > link into the Perl executable, not into Postgres). > > Did it not work if you just let the makefile do what it wanted? > > regards, tom lane >
