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1. NetBSD 1.4.2/i386 needs to link psql with -ltermcap

   Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> — 2001-03-22T08:22:18Z

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   Hi,
   
   Today I built postgresql-7.1beta6 on NetBSD-1.4.2/i386, which uses
   a.out binary format.  (NetBSD 1.5/i386 uses ELF.)
   
   I found that psql needs to be linked with -ltermcap or else psql will
   fail with a runtime error when used interactively:
   
   $ psql ...
   Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
   
   Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
          \h for help with SQL commands
          \? for help on internal slash commands
          \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
          \q to quit
   
   /usr/libexec/ld.so: Undefined symbol "_tgetent" called from psql:/usr/lib/libedit.so.2.2 at 0x400892ac
   
   I added -ltermcap to the "LIBS = ..." line in Makefile.global and
   rebuilt psql after which it worked without problems.
   
   Builds on NetBSD-1.5/i386 and NetBSD-1.5/alpha included -ltermcap in
   LIBS automatically.
   
   Thanks to those who enabled libedit -- history editing is nice.
   
   Regards,
   
   Giles
   
   
   
   

2. Re: NetBSD 1.4.2/i386 needs to link psql with -ltermcap

   Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> — 2001-03-22T16:57:59Z

   Giles Lean writes:
   
   > Today I built postgresql-7.1beta6 on NetBSD-1.4.2/i386, which uses
   > a.out binary format.  (NetBSD 1.5/i386 uses ELF.)
   >
   > I found that psql needs to be linked with -ltermcap or else psql will
   > fail with a runtime error when used interactively:
   
   > /usr/libexec/ld.so: Undefined symbol "_tgetent" called from psql:/usr/lib/libedit.so.2.2 at 0x400892ac
   
   This should be detected by configure.  E.g., on my system I get
   
   | checking for readline... yes (-lreadline -ltermcap)
   
   (-lreadline and -ledit are equivalent for computational purposes).
   config.log shows:
   
   | configure:3143: checking for readline
   | configure:3165: gcc -o conftest -O2 -g     conftest.c -lreadline  1>&5
   [ tries without termcap]
   | /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetnum'
   [snip]
   | configure:3165: gcc -o conftest -O2 -g     conftest.c -lreadline -ltermcap  1>&5
   [ tries with termcap, success ]
   
   Can you check around these areas why it doesn't behave as expected?
   
   -- 
   Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/