From: Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@rice.edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] pgAccess fails to launch on HPUX
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:49:13 -0600
Message-ID: <20010207124913.A29490@rice.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6811.981570898@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <6811.981570898@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:34:58PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I thought I'd tried pgAccess back in the dim past with success, but as
> of current sources it fails on HPUX 10.20 and Tcl 8.3.2:
>
<SNIP problem with dynamic load and Tcl>
> And the reason for *that* is that Tcl doesn't pass the DYNAMIC_PATH flag
> to shl_load(). I find that sourceforge.net already has a couple of bug
> reports posted on this, so perhaps the Tcl guys will get their act
> together and add the flag in Tcl 8.4, but in the meantime I think we
> have very little choice except to specify the full path to the library
> in pgaccess' load command.
Yep, the Tcl team changed dynamic loading in 8.2->8.3 This bit me on NT,
first.
>
> Does anyone object if I modify pgaccess so that it always specifies the
> full path to the library? That seems like it'd be a good idea even on
> OSes without this quirk, because it'd ensure getting the matching
> version of libpgtcl and libpq even if your SHLIB_PATH/LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> points to some other version.
Sounds like a good idea, to me. Getting the wrong library loaded leads to
non-obvious error messages, as well.
Ross
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