Re: Threading with non-shared libraries - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Threading with non-shared libraries
Date
Msg-id 200412151738.iBFHcki20696@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Threading with non-shared libraries  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > OK, it took me a while to figure this out, but it is similar to the
> > problem we have on AIX.  AIX shared libraries don't track other
> > libraries needed by the shared library, and non-shared libraries also
> > have no such dependency information.
>
> I'm pretty sure that static linking is completely broken for nontrivial
> configurations because of this issue.  If we want to support that, we
> should do an all-out fix, not a fix for one library and one platform.

Right.  My idea is that we need that code on AIX or when doing static
builds on any platform.

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