Re: problem making DBD-Pg

you are trying to mix 32 and 64 bit code. that's a nono.  please give me 
the result of a perl -V so I can see what options you used to compile 
perl.  Also please provide what optoins you are using to to compile Pg.so.

Jeph Cowan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a problem getting DBD-Pg to compile and was wondering if you could point 
> me in the right direction. perl Makefile.PL is fine, however the make blows up. The 
> error is:
>
>   ...snip...
> Running Mkbootstrap for DBD::Pg ()
> chmod 644 Pg.bs
> rm -f blib/arch/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so
> LD_RUN_PATH="" cc  -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 Pg.o dbdimp.o quote.o types.o  -o 
> blib/arch/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so   -L/usr/local/pgsql/lib -lpq
> /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: 
> /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.a(fe-connect.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used 
> when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [blib/arch/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so] Error 1
>
> Pertinent system information:
>     OS information: (uname -a)
>             kernel-name:       Linux
>             nodename:          snoopy
>             kernel-release:    2.6.5-7.244-default
>             kernel-version:    #1 Mon Dec 12 18:32:35 UTC 2005
>             machine:           x86_64
>             processor:         x86_64
>             hardware-platform: x86_64
>             operating-system:  GNU/Linux
>
>     Perl DBI information
>       Wed May 17 15:34:46 2006: "Module" DBI
>       *   "installed into: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3"
>       *   "LINKTYPE: dynamic"
>       *   "VERSION: 1.50"
>       *   "EXE_FILES: dbiproxy dbiprof"
>
>     DBD-Pg-1.49
>
>     postgres (PostgreSQL) 8.1.4, connecting to same.
>
> Hopefully it a silly configuration error that I'm not seeing. Please let me know if 
> you need additional information. Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards... -jeph
>