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Bug 1462394 - [upstream] postgresql --with-perl fails to build on rawhide due new perl
Summary: [upstream] postgresql --with-perl fails to build on rawhide due new perl
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: postgresql
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Patrik Novotný
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-06-17 03:30 UTC by Filipe Rosset
Modified: 2020-04-22 10:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-04-22 10:22:08 UTC
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Red Hat Bugzilla 1242817 0 unspecified CLOSED postgresql-9.4.4-2.fc23 FTBFS: configure: error: libperl library is required for Perl 2022-05-16 11:32:56 UTC

Internal Links: 1242817

Description Filipe Rosset 2017-06-17 03:30:45 UTC 
postgresql --with-perl fails to build on rawhide due new perl

postgresql affected versions 9.3+ (including HEAD)

(maybe due hardening?)

> checking for libperl... no
> configure: error: libperl library is required for Perl

or in detail

configure:15859: checking for libperl
configure:15875: ccache gcc -o conftest -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wformat-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -fexcess-precision=standard -g -O2  -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/include/libxml2  -I/usr/lib64/perl5/CORE   conftest.c  -Wl,-z,relro -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib  -L/usr/lib64/perl5/CORE -lperl -lpthread -lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc >&5
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/cchBvqS3.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `perl_alloc' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status



#disabled --with-perl workaround the build
    config_opts =>[
        qw(
          --enable-cassert
          --enable-debug
          --enable-nls
          --with-perl
          --with-python
          --with-tcl
          --with-gssapi
          --with-openssl
          --with-ldap
          --with-libxml
          --with-libxslt
          --with-pam
          --with-krb5
          )
Comment 1 Petr Pisar 2017-06-19 07:17:43 UTC 
That's bug in postrgresql build script. It uses Perl's linker flags but it does uses compiler flags. Specifically it does not pass -fPIC to adhere default Fedora hardening with RELRO linkage.

The same issue was already spotted a year ago when Perl was tentatively built with enabled hardening.
Comment 2 Pavel Raiskup 2017-06-22 10:49:54 UTC 
Felipe, here we are talking about vanilla Postgresql, right?  Because
I don't see problems with PostgreSQL in koschei.

Build of our package in PostgreSQL succeeds IMO because we have now
enabled hardening (bug 1242817).
Comment 3 Jan Kurik 2017-08-15 08:21:57 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 27 development cycle.
Changing version to '27'.
Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2018-11-27 14:51:17 UTC 
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Comment 5 Pavel Raiskup 2018-11-27 15:00:56 UTC 
This requires upstream fix.
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