I would like to apply this to CVS HEAD and 8.0.X so PG client
applications link to the libpgport non-shared library before linking to
libpq so it doesn't pull libpgport symbols from libpq.
This should make PG client apps more immune to libpq/pgport changes in
each version.
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Index: src/Makefile.global.in
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/Makefile.global.in,v
retrieving revision 1.209
diff -c -c -r1.209 Makefile.global.in
*** src/Makefile.global.in 26 Jan 2005 19:23:59 -0000 1.209
--- src/Makefile.global.in 11 Mar 2005 21:21:15 -0000
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*** 306,312 ****
libpq_builddir = $(top_builddir)/src/interfaces/libpq
endif
! libpq = -L$(libpq_builddir) -lpq
# If doing static linking, shared library dependency can't be
# used so we specify pthread libs for every usage of libpq
--- 306,321 ----
libpq_builddir = $(top_builddir)/src/interfaces/libpq
endif
! # We need client applications to pull from libpgport rather than getting
! # the same symbols from libpq's copy of pgport. This makes applications
! # bind to libpq symbols only based on the API and not pgport.
! # To do this we make sure pgport is linked to first, before libpq.
! # This does cause duplicate -lpgport's to appear on client link lines.
! ifdef PGXS
! libpq = -L$(libdir) -lpgport -L$(libpq_builddir) -lpq
! else
! libpq = -L$(top_builddir)/src/port -lpgport -L$(libpq_builddir) -lpq
! endif
# If doing static linking, shared library dependency can't be
# used so we specify pthread libs for every usage of libpq
