On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 10:11 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 5/9/13 3:25 AM, Dave Page wrote: > > BTW - it's always worked fine for us on 64 bit machines with the past > > few major releases of both PG and Python - are you saying that's pure > > chance? > > It works because ActiveState Python has PIC inside a static library. > But we have no straightforward way of knowing that (AFAIK), other than > observing whether the build result crashes or not.
After further digging, it seems to me that their build is not a standard build. They must be patching in compiler options through the backdoor somehow. Their config/Makefile has BASECFLAGS= -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC meaning that they compile *everything* with those options. But that's not something that the standard Python configure script can produce. Again, reliably detecting that might be difficult. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
