http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-07/msg00096.php describes what I think is causing octopus to fail. What's also interesting is these patches from the FreeBSD port:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:48]/usr/ports/databases/postgresql80-server/files:37>cat patch-plpython-Makefile patch-src-makefiles-Makefile.freebsd --- src/pl/plpython/Makefile.orig Fri Nov 19 20:23:01 2004 +++ src/pl/plpython/Makefile Tue Dec 28 23:32:16 2004 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ # shared library. Since there is no official way to determine this # (at least not in pre-2.3 Python), we see if there is a file that is # named like a shared library. -ifneq (,$(wildcard $(python_libdir)/libpython*$(DLSUFFIX)*)) +ifneq (,$(wildcard $(python_libdir)/../../libpython*$(DLSUFFIX)*)) shared_libpython = yes endif --- src/makefiles/Makefile.freebsd.orig Fri Nov 19 01:41:39 2004 +++ src/makefiles/Makefile.freebsd Tue Dec 21 02:44:09 2004 @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ ifeq ($(findstring sparc,$(host_cpu)), sparc) CFLAGS_SL = -fPIC -DPIC else -CFLAGS_SL = -fpic -DPIC +CFLAGS_SL = -fPIC -DPIC endif @@ -29,3 +29,5 @@ endif sqlmansect = 7 + +allow_nonpic_in_shlib = yes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:49]/usr/ports/databases/postgresql80-server/files:38> Can anyone comment on what the second one does, specifically the allow_nonpic_in_shlib? As for the first patch, is there any way to make that FreeBSD specific in the makefile without going to a Makefile.in? Could that test be done in Makefile.global? -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
