On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Julia Jacobson <julia.jacob...@arcor.de> wrote: > When trying to compile PostgreSQL 8.4.6 on Windows 7 using MSys (MinGW) in > order to build a static version of libpq by the commands > ./configure --without-zlib --disable-shared > make > the compilation process ends with the error message > "No rule to make target 'libpq.a', needed by 'all-static-lib'". > This issue was already discussed here on the mailing list more than 6 years > ago and successfully fixed with a patch: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers-win32/2004-10/msg00057.php > However, it seems to me like there is a similar problem in version 8.4.x. > Please corrected me if I'm wrong.
I tried this on MacOS X and got a different error: make -C interfaces all make -C libpq all make[3]: *** No rule to make target `libpq.5.4.dylib', needed by `all-shared-lib'. Stop. make[2]: *** [all-libpq-recurse] Error 2 make[1]: *** [all-interfaces-recurse] Error 2 make: *** [all-src-recurse] Error 2 I also tried it on Linux (Fedora 12), where it completed successfully. Unfortunately, I don't think we have any buildfarm coverage of --disable-shared, so there is no automatic way for us to notice when this has gotten broken. The problem appears to be that the all-shared-lib target in src/Makefile.shlib depends on $(shlib). The first two, generic assignments to that variable are protected like this: ifeq ($(enable_shared), yes) shlib = $(NAME)$(DLSUFFIX) endif But the remaining, platform-specific ones are not. So my guess is this will work on any platform that uses the default value for shlib, and fail on any platform that has a platform-specific override, namely: aix, darwin, freebsd, hpux, irix, cygwin, win32. Can you see whether the following patch fixes it for you? It seems to work on MacOS X, but I don't have a mingw environment handy. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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