"Peter Geoghegan" <peter.geoghegan86 at gmail.com> writes:
> I'm attempting to build Slony-I 1.2.15 on Opensuse 11 / i586. I
> expected this to be totally straightforward, as I've already
> successfully built the exact same version of Slony-I on an Opensuse
> 10.3/ i586 system.
>
> I resolved dependencies on GNU Bison and Flex using my distro's
> package manager in the usual way. I'm using a different version of
> postgreSQL then the one that was previously found to work with Slony
> on OpenSuse 10.3 - 8.3.* rather than 8.2.*, because that's what came
> with each version's package manager . I have the postgreSQL devel and
> libs packages.
>
> I ran configure without any problems, but when I subsequently ran
> make, ld gave an error while linking slonik: "cannot find -lpgport".
>
> This linker flag is cryptic - I can't seem to find anything more than
> a passing reference to it on Google. I have no idea how to resolve
> whatever issue it is that prevents ld from successfully completing
> linking. What little information was available suggests it has
> something to do specifically with postgreSQL/libpq. I have
> successfully built libpqxx on this system, which dynamically links to
> libpq, which makes the fact that linking fails all the more
> surprising.
>
> Please advise me on how to fix this problem,

Curious.
   http://www.slony.info/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=36

And it appears that I reverted that change on April 11th :-(.

Try taking the line containing "-lpgport" out of the Makefile; that
ought to be helpful, I'd think...
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