Compiling PostgreSQL 8.1.4 under Solaris 10, I ran into a problem documented back on 2006-05-30. Apparently in order
tocompile successfully, one has to remove an unreferenced function pqsignalinquire() in
src/interfaces/libpq/pqsignal.c.
Since I stepped into this hole, is there anything I can do to help ensure that nobody else has to get lost on Google
forseveral hours tracking down the same problem? I have been a Free Software user for some time but am not familiar
withways of feeding back into the process.
Thanks,
Victor Odhner
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Details of the problem:
Removing the function eliminated the following error when linking "initdb":
Undefined symbol -- first referenced in file
sigmask -- ../../../src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.so
sigblock -- ../../../src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.so
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to initdb
My guidance came from a posting by Tom Lane, 2006-05-30 --
http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=pgsql-admin&a=2006-05&t=2058700 dated 2006-05-30
The rest of this message digests that posting.
Tom Lane Quoted Bruce Momjian from another discussion:
2004-01-08 21:02 momjian
* doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml, src/backend/nodes/read.c,
src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c, src/interfaces/libpq/fe-print.c,
src/interfaces/libpq/fe-secure.c, src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h,
src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-int.h, src/interfaces/libpq/pqsignal.c,
src/interfaces/libpq/pqsignal.h: Allow libpq to do thread-safe
SIGPIPE handling. This allows it to ignore SIGPIPE from send() in
libpq, but terminate on any other SIGPIPE, unless the user installs
their own signal handler.
This is a minor fix because the only time you get SIGPIPE from
libpq's send() is when the backend dies.
The code appears to unconditionally assume that sigmask() and sigblock() exist.
Not a good assumption.
(End of Momjian quote; Tom Lane continued . . .)
AFAICS pqsignalinquire() isn't even used anywhere (at least not in
HEAD), so the simplest answer may be to remove it rather than try to
fix it. It's in src/interfaces/libpq/pqsignal.c.
(V.Odhner comment: This worked for the person who started that discussion, and it seems to have worked for me.)
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