Problem building against 9.4 on SLES 11 SP1

[steveratay]

When building on SLES 11 SP1, I can't seem to find the pgcommon library. It seems that the libpgcommon.a file is actually in /var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/lib64.

[17:25:22][Step 2/2] rm -f xlogreader.c && ln -s ../../build/postgresql/postgresql-9.4.1/src/backend/access/transam/xlogreader.c .
[17:25:22][Step 2/2] gcc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -O2 -g -m64 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql -I. -I./ -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql/server -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql/internal -DFRONTEND   -c -o xlogreader.o xlogreader.c
[17:25:22][Step 2/2] gcc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -O2 -g -m64 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql -I. -I./ -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql/server -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql/internal -DFRONTEND   -c -o util.o util.c
[17:25:22][Step 2/2] gcc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -O2 -g -m64 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql -I. -I./ -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql/server -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql/internal -DFRONTEND   -c -o datapagemap.o datapagemap.c
[17:25:22][Step 2/2] gcc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -O2 -g -m64 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql -I. -I./ -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql/server -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql/internal -DFRONTEND   -c -o timeline.o timeline.c
[17:25:22][Step 2/2] gcc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -O2 -g -m64 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql -I. -I./ -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql/server -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql/internal -DFRONTEND   -c -o fetch.o fetch.c
[17:25:23][Step 2/2] gcc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -O2 -g -m64 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql -I. -I./ -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql/server -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql/internal -DFRONTEND   -c -o copy_fetch.o copy_fetch.c
[17:25:23][Step 2/2] gcc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -O2 -g -m64 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql -I. -I./ -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql/server -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql/internal -DFRONTEND   -c -o libpq_fetch.o libpq_fetch.c
[17:25:23][Step 2/2] gcc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -O2 -g -m64 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql -I. -I./ -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql/server -I/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/include/pgsql/internal -DFRONTEND   -c -o filemap.o filemap.c
[17:25:23][Step 2/2] gcc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -O2 -g -m64 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables pg_rewind.o parsexlog.o xlogreader.o util.o datapagemap.o timeline.o fetch.o copy_fetch.o libpq_fetch.o filemap.o -L/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/lib/postgresql94/lib64 -lpgcommon -lpgport -L/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/lib/postgresql94/lib64 -lpq -L/var/tmp/vpagent/postgresql94-libs-9.4.1-build/usr/lib/postgresql94/lib64 -Wl,--as-needed  -lpgcommon -lpgport -lssl -lcrypto -lgssapi_krb5 -lz -lrt -lcrypt -ldl -lm  -o pg_rewind
[17:25:23][Step 2/2] /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lpgcommon
[17:25:23][Step 2/2] collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
[17:25:23][Step 2/2] make: *** [pg_rewind] Error 1
[17:25:23][Step 2/2] Process exited with code 2

[michaelpq]

I cannot understand why this is an issue with pg_rewind and not with your OS configuration. Are you sure you installed all the required packages?

[steveratay]

What are all the required packages? I didn't see anything in the documentation about needing any packages. The only requirement was to point to the PostgreSQL source code.

[michaelpq]

pg_rewind is a frontend utility, and it has dependencies with libpq and libpqcommon.

[steveratay]

I got this to build, but I had to install postgresql94-devel and openssl-devel packages.