Previously export_dynamic was set in src/makefiles/Makefile.$port. For solaris this required exporting with_gnu_ld. The determination of with_gnu_ld would be nontrivial to copy for meson PGXS compatibility. It's also nice to delete libtool.m4. This uses -Wl,--export-dynamic on all platforms, previously all platforms but FreeBSD used -Wl,-E. The likelihood of a name conflict seems lower with the longer spelling. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221005200710.luvw5evhwf6clig6@awork3.anarazel.de
This way we don't need RANLIB anymore, making it a bit simpler for the meson build to generate Makefile.global for PGXS compatibility. FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, the only platforms where we didn't use AROPT=crs, all have supported the 's' option for a long time. On macOS we ran ranlib after installing a static library. This was added a long time ago, in 58ad65ec2def. I cannot reproduce an issue in more recent macOS versions. This is removed now. Based on discussion with Tom, I left the 'touch' at the end of static libraries generation, added in 826eff57c4c, in place. While it looks like current versions of Apple's ar/ranlib don't need it, it was needed not too long ago. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221005200710.luvw5evhwf6clig6@awork3.anarazel.de
Move DLSUFFIX from makefiles into header files for all platforms. Move the DLSUFFIX assignment from src/makefiles/ to src/templates/, have configure read it, and then substitute it into Makefile.global and pg_config.h. This avoids the need for all makefile rules that need it to locally set CPPFLAGS. It also resolves an inconsistent setup between the two Windows build systems. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2f9861fb-8969-9005-7518-b8e60f2bead9@enterprisedb.com
Move the platform-dependent logic that sets CFLAGS_SL from src/makefiles/Makefile.foo to src/template/foo, so that the value is determined at configure time and thus is available while running configure's tests. On a couple of platforms this might save a few microseconds of build time by eliminating a test that make otherwise has to do over and over. Otherwise it's pretty much a wash for build purposes; in particular, this makes no difference to anyone who might be overriding CFLAGS_SL via a make option. This patch in itself does nothing with the value and thus should not change any behavior, though you'll probably have to re-run configure to get a correctly updated Makefile.global. We'll use the new configure variable in a follow-on patch. Per gripe from Kyotaro Horiguchi. Back-patch to all supported branches, because the follow-on patch is a portability bug fix. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191010.144533.263180400.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
It's important for link commands to list *.o input files before -l switches for libraries, as library code may not get pulled into the link unless referenced by an earlier command-line entry. This is certainly necessary for static libraries (.a style). Apparently on some platforms it is also necessary for shared libraries, as reported by Donald Dong. We often put -l switches for within-tree libraries into LDFLAGS, meaning that link commands that list *.o files after LDFLAGS are hazardous. Most of our link commands got this right, but a few did not. In particular, places that relied on gmake's default implicit link rule failed, because that puts LDFLAGS first. Fix that by overriding the built-in rule with our own. The implicit link rules in src/makefiles/Makefile.* for single-.o-file shared libraries mostly got this wrong too, so fix them. I also changed the link rules for the backend and a couple of other places for consistency, even though they are not (currently) at risk because they aren't adding any -l switches to LDFLAGS. Arguably, the real problem here is that we're abusing LDFLAGS by putting -l switches in it and we should stop doing that. But changing that would be quite invasive, so I'm not eager to do so. Perhaps this is a candidate for back-patching, but so far it seems that problems can only be exhibited in test code we don't normally build, and at least some of the problems are new in HEAD anyway. So I'll refrain for now. Donald Dong and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKABAquXn-BF-vBeRZxhzvPyfMqgGuc74p8BmQZyCFDpyROBJQ@mail.gmail.com
On some platforms, -fpic fails for sufficiently large shared libraries. We've mostly not hit that boundary yet, but there are some extensions such as Citus and pglogical where it's becoming a problem. A bit of research suggests that the penalty for -fPIC is small, in the single-digit-percentage range --- and there's none at all on popular platforms such as x86_64. So let's just default to -fPIC everywhere and provide one less thing for extension developers to worry about. Per complaint from Christoph Berg. Back-patch to all supported branches. (I did not bother to touch the recently-removed Makefiles for sco and unixware in the back branches, though. We'd have no way to test that it doesn't break anything on those platforms.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170529155850.qojdfrwkkqnjb3ap@msg.df7cb.de
This was used in a time when a shared libperl or libpython was difficult to come by. That is obsolete, and the idea behind the flag was never fully portable anyway and will likely fail on more modern CPU architectures.
linking both executables and shared libraries, and we add on LDFLAGS_EX when linking executables or LDFLAGS_SL when linking shared libraries. This provides a significantly cleaner way of dealing with link-time switches than the former behavior. Also, make sure that the various platform-specific %.so: %.o rules incorporate LDFLAGS and LDFLAGS_SL; most of them missed that before. (I did not add these variables for the platforms that invoke $(LD) directly, however. It's not clear if we can do that safely, since for the most part we assume these variables use CC command-line syntax.) Per gripe from Aaron Swenson and subsequent investigation.
This should allow LD_LIBRARY_PATH to work as desired. Per trouble report from Andy Colson.
another section if required by the platform (instead of the old way of building them in section "l" and always transforming them to the platform-specific section). This speeds up the installation on common platforms, and it avoids some funny business with the man page tools and build process.