On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 08:30:46PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net> writes:
> > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:01:32AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> I don't know about Windows, but on Linux -lpq should always be enough (unless
> >> you are linking statically). Everything else would seem to be a bug.
>
> > Yup, linking statically.
>
> Do you have a really good reason for doing that? Just about every
> distro nowadays strongly discourages static linking, because it makes
> it so painful to deal with bug or security fixes in libraries. (Red Hat
> won't even distribute static libraries except in some special cases,
> and libpq definitely isn't one of the exceptions.)
I'm linking a commercial application. It was thought to be more
convienent to use static libraries for deplyoment purposes. What do you
think?
Bob Rossi
