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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 )
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.
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).
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 27 development cycle. Changing version to '27'.
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This requires upstream fix.