Okay, this shoudl provide a fix for the freebsd problem...

Added a ELF_SYS variable and check to configure.in...

src/Makefile.global.in

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 #
 #
 # IDENTIFICATION
-#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/Makefile.global.in,v 1.52 1998/10/19 00:00:40 tgl Exp $
+#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/Makefile.global.in,v 1.53 1998/10/30 04:53:55 scrappy Exp $
 #
 # NOTES
 #    Essentially all Postgres make files include this file and use the 
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@
 # example of this), set BSD_SHLIB to null in Makefile.custom.
 BSD_SHLIB= true
 
+# This is mainly for use on FreeBSD, where we have both a.out and elf
+# systems now.  May be applicable to other systems to?
+ELF_SYSTEM= @ELF_SYS@
+
 LIBPQDIR:= $(SRCDIR)/interfaces/libpq
 
 # For convenience, POSTGRESDIR is where BINDIR, and LIBDIR 

src/backend/parser/gram.c

@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/Attic/gram.c,v 2.47 1998/10/17 04:08:36 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/Attic/gram.c,v 2.48 1998/10/30 04:54:01 scrappy Exp $
  *
  * HISTORY
  *	  AUTHOR			DATE			MAJOR EVENT
@@ -4464,7 +4464,7 @@ static const short yycheck[] = {     3,
     -1,    -1,    -1,    -1,    -1,    -1,   204
 };
 /* -*-C-*-  Note some compilers choke on comments on `#line' lines.  */
-#line 3 "/usr/local/bison/bison.simple"
+#line 3 "/usr/share/misc/bison.simple"
 
 /* Skeleton output parser for bison,
    Copyright (C) 1984, 1989, 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -4657,7 +4657,7 @@ __yy_memcpy (char *to, char *from, int count)
 #endif
 #endif
 
-#line 196 "/usr/local/bison/bison.simple"
+#line 196 "/usr/share/misc/bison.simple"
 
 /* The user can define YYPARSE_PARAM as the name of an argument to be passed
    into yyparse.  The argument should have type void *.
@@ -10416,7 +10416,7 @@ case 930:
     break;}
 }
    /* the action file gets copied in in place of this dollarsign */
-#line 498 "/usr/local/bison/bison.simple"
+#line 498 "/usr/share/misc/bison.simple"
 
   yyvsp -= yylen;
   yyssp -= yylen;

src/configure.in

@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ case "$host_os" in
      aux*) os=aux need_tas=no ;;
    linux*) os=linux need_tas=no ;;
     bsdi*) os=bsdi need_tas=no ;;
- freebsd*) os=freebsd need_tas=no ;;
+ freebsd3*) os=freebsd need_tas=no elf=yes ;;
+ freebsd1*) os=freebsd need_tas=no ;;
   netbsd*|openbsd*) os=bsd need_tas=no ;;
     dgux*) os=dgux need_tas=no ;;
      aix*) os=aix need_tas=no ;;
@@ -47,6 +48,13 @@ nextstep*) os=nextstep need_tas=no ;;
    exit;;
 esac
 
+if test "X$elf" = "Xyes"
+then
+	ELF_SYS=true
+else
+	ELF_SYS=false
+fi
+
 if test "X$need_tas" = "Xyes"
 then
 	AC_LINK_FILES(backend/port/tas/${tas_file}, backend/port/tas.s)
@@ -358,6 +366,7 @@ echo "- setting CPPFLAGS=$CPPFLAGS"
 LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $PGSQL_LDFLAGS"
 echo "- setting LDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS"
 
+AC_SUBST(ELF_SYS)
 AC_SUBST(PORTNAME)
 AC_SUBST(SRCDIR)
 AC_SUBST(LDFLAGS)
@@ -533,6 +542,7 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS(readline/readline.h readline/history.h ieeefp.h fp_class.h)
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(netinet/in.h string.h strings.h)
 dnl ODBC headers...
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(sys/param.h pwd.h)
+dnl
 
 dnl Checks for typedefs, structures, and compiler characteristics.
 AC_C_CONST

src/makefiles/Makefile.freebsd

@@ -5,5 +5,9 @@
 	@${AR} cq $@.pic `lorder $<.obj | tsort`
 	${RANLIB} $@.pic
 	@rm -f $@
-#	$(LD) -x -Bshareable -Bforcearchive \
-	$(LD) -x -Bshareable -o $@ $@.pic
+	ifdef ELF_SYSTEM
+		$(LD) -x -Bshareable -o $@ $@.pic
+	else
+	        $(LD) -x -Bshareable -Bforcearchive -o $@ $@.pic
+	endif
+