Re: [HACKERS] FreeBSD broke with autoconf-based build

2005-11-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: Also, which port of autoconf are you using? We're still stuck at 2.59, so if you are using the newer port available in FreeBSD, you may be being bitten by that as well ... If you're using something newer than 2.59, you're do

Re: [HACKERS] FreeBSD broke with autoconf-based build

2005-11-01 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > We'll have to add a check for ELF_SYSTEM in our own configure script. > Wouldn't this be a problem for pgxs-compiled modules as well ? No, because they import the PG installation's Makefile.global. If you are importing Makefile.shlib and not Makefile.global, you are do

Re: [HACKERS] FreeBSD broke with autoconf-based build

2005-11-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Also, which port of autoconf are you using? We're still stuck at > 2.59, so if you are using the newer port available in FreeBSD, you > may be being bitten by that as well ... If you're using something newer than 2.59, you're doing something weird... ftp://ftp.gnu.org/

Re: [HACKERS] FreeBSD broke with autoconf-based build

2005-11-01 Thread strk
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:10:24AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I'm having troubles building postgis HEAD on freebsd > > using the new autoconf-based scripts. > > FreeBSD which, exactly? It makes a difference, because AFAICS from > configure newer versions of FreeBSD use

Re: [HACKERS] FreeBSD broke with autoconf-based build

2005-11-01 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Isn't the point about autoconf that the user should not have to run it, or even have it installed? Only the package creator should have to care about autoconf versions, surely, or else it is pointless. cheers andrew Marc G. Fournier wrote: Also, which port of autoconf are you using? We'r

Re: [HACKERS] FreeBSD broke with autoconf-based build

2005-11-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Also, which port of autoconf are you using? We're still stuck at 2.59, so if you are using the newer port available in FreeBSD, you may be being bitten by that as well ... On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Tom Lane wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having troubles building postgis HEAD on freebsd

Re: [HACKERS] FreeBSD broke with autoconf-based build

2005-11-01 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm having troubles building postgis HEAD on freebsd > using the new autoconf-based scripts. FreeBSD which, exactly? It makes a difference, because AFAICS from configure newer versions of FreeBSD use ELF, and the link switches are different then. > The Makefile.shlib

[HACKERS] FreeBSD broke with autoconf-based build

2005-11-01 Thread strk
I'm having troubles building postgis HEAD on freebsd using the new autoconf-based scripts. The Makefile.shlib file copied by pgsql sources adds a -Bforcearchive flag to LINK.shared with arch is freebsd, but the flag seems to be unsupported (this is from 7.2.1 to 8.0.0) Weird enough PostgreSQL bui