"Janet Hempstead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to build postgresql 8.0.3 on a Sun Ultra 5 running Solaris 9. > ... > export LDFLAGS='-L /usr/lib -L /usr/local/lib -L /usr/local/ssl/lib' > ... > gcc -shared -h libascii_and_mic.so.0 ascii_and_mic.o > -L../../../../../../src/port -L -L -L -o libascii_and_mic.so.0.0 > gcc: libascii_and_mic.so.0.0: No such file or directory
Hmm ... I think what happened here is that the first -L ate the second -L as argument, and then the third -L ate the -o, leaving libascii_and_mic.so.0.0 looking like an input filename rather than an output filename to gcc. But this is of course only the symptom --- the question is how did those argument-less -L switches get into the command line? I'm guessing that your LDFLAGS switch got munged into this. The recommended, supported way of specifying library directories is not through LDFLAGS, but like this: configure ... --with-libs=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/ssl/lib I think that your LDFLAGS approach might have worked if you'd left out the spaces between the -L's and the directories, but given the way we whack LDFLAGS around in the makefiles, it definitely won't work with spaces :-( regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend