On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 04:01:07PM +0200, Pierre Pronchery wrote: > On 16/07/2013 15:40, Pierre Pronchery wrote: > > > > I have just installed libpq-dev on a fresh wheezy install (amd64), and > > building against it fails as follows: > > > > $ cc -shared -o pgsql.so pgsql.o `pkg-config --cflags libSystem` -L > > `pg_config --libdir` -Wl,-rpath,`pg_config --libdir` `pg_config --libs` > > -lpq > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lxslt > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpam > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ledit > > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > > *** Error code 1 > > [...] > > FTR the output of `pg_config --libs` is as follows: > > -lpgport -lxslt -lxml2 -lpam -lssl -lcrypto -lkrb5 -lcom_err > > -lgssapi_krb5 -lz -ledit -lcrypt -ldl -lm > > (so it could be more dependencies are required) > > The real issue might as well be that the output of `pg_config --libs` is > wrong: I have just been able to link a program to libpq without libxml2, > libxslt or libedit and it runs fine.
Nope, the real issue is that pg_config is not pkg-config :) pg_config --help says --libs show LIBS value used when PostgreSQL was built So it has nothing in common with pkg-config --libs pq (if that would exist) which will tell you which libs are needed to link with libpq. Greets Evgeni -- Bruce Schneier can read and understand Perl programs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
