Re: Relocatable installs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Relocatable installs
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Msg-id 200405182344.44225.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Relocatable installs  (Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: Relocatable installs  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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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.



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