Hi Tom, Thanks fr your reply.. Not sure I understood! I've tried your hack with no luck. Further more, README in perl/ext/Dynaloader says it has to be static to be effective.
What concerns me more is that with same perl (5.6.1) it compiles ok with 722. Regards On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 17:14:13 -0400 > From: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Larry Rosenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > pgsql-hackers list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Bug in Makefile.shlib > > Olivier PRENANT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The problem is that at link time, ld complains about text segment beeing > > written to in Dynaloader. > > I agree this sounded stupid. But I can't think of something else. > > This is with perl-5.6.1 FWIW > > Ah. This is a bug in Perl's build process: even if you request a shared > library, it builds DynaLoader as static code. My own notes about > installing perl 5.6.1 on HPUX read: > > make > fix DynaLoader.o per below > make test > make install > > At least in 5.6.1, even with "build shared" request, DynaLoader.o is not > made with +z, which will cause plperl to fail. To fix, simply go into > perl-5.6.1/ext/DynaLoader, rm DynaLoader.o, and "make". I wonder why > toplevel makefile thinks it's okay to build DynaLoader static?? > > > I'm just now in the middle of installing Perl 5.8.0, and it seems that > the oversight has been fixed; DynaLoader is now built sharable: > > cc -c -Ae -D_HPUX_SOURCE -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings -DDEBUGGING -I/usr/local/include >-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -DVERSION=\"1.04\" >-DXS_VERSION=\"1.04\" +Z "-I../.." -DPERL_CORE -DLIBC="/lib/libc.sl" DynaLoader.c > > There seem to be some other problems --- 7.2 plperl dumps core for me > even with the above fix. Still looking into that (I'm sorta hoping that > 5.8.0 will fix it, but won't know for a little while...) > > regards, tom lane > -- Olivier PRENANT Tel: +33-5-61-50-97-00 (Work) Quartier d'Harraud Turrou +33-5-61-50-97-01 (Fax) 31190 AUTERIVE +33-6-07-63-80-64 (GSM) FRANCE Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Make your life a dream, make your dream a reality. (St Exupery) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
