At 21:47 7/07/00 +0200, Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> And how should binary distributions like RPM's handle it? I
> assume that this problem is already on it's way because of
> the integration of zlib into pg_dump. The only way I see is
> having different RPM's for each possible combination of
> available helper libs. Or is there another way to work
> around?
This remoinded me of a question I wanted to ask Unix people: other OSs I
use allow for dynamic linking, at runtime and in code, against shared
libraries, and I know Unix must allow this. The places where zlib is used
are pretty limited, so it might be worth considering doing the 'HAVE_ZLIB'
kinds of checks at runtime. Then one binary fits all...
Is this hard or easy - at least on machines with a libz.so?
Is it worth doing?
I guess the alternative on rpm is to create both: pg_dump.zlib and
pg_dump.nozlib, and install the right one?
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