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Re: configure fails for perl check on CentOS8

Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2019-10-10T13:22:48Z
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On 10/10/19 1:46 AM, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> Hello, While I'm moving to CentOS8 environment, I got stuck at
> ./configure with the following error.
>
> configure: error: libperl library is requred for Perl
>
> It complains that it needs -fPIC.
>
> Configure uses only $Config{ccflags}, but it seems that
> $Config{cccdlflags} is also required. The attached patch make
> ./configure success. (configure itself is excluded in the patch.)
>


./configure --with-perl


is working for me on Centos8 (double checked after a `dnf update`)


cheers


andrew


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Commits

  1. Use CFLAGS_SL while probing linkability of libperl.

  2. Select CFLAGS_SL at configure time, not in platform-specific Makefiles.