Re: Relocatable installs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Relocatable installs
Date
Msg-id 200405182147.i4ILlOi25080@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Relocatable installs  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Relocatable installs  (Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Jan Wieck wrote:
> > Boy, nobody was suggesting 100% static linking. What kind of madness
> > are you getting into if you link libpq.a into psql? There is
> > something between all or nothing, isn't there?
> 
> It's not going to be only psql and libpq.  The next thing is, someone 
> wants to have a relocatable libpqxx, or a relocatable PHP, or a 
> relocatable MyCoolReplicationSystem.  Before you know it, half the 
> world has the other half of the world statically linked.  This can't be 
> the solution.

So your opinion is that we need to just require some user configuration
changes to find the shared libs, right?

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