Re: 'configure --disable-shared' and 'make check' - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mark Kirkwood
Subject Re: 'configure --disable-shared' and 'make check'
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Msg-id 45130ABA.5030201@paradise.net.nz
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In response to Re: 'configure --disable-shared' and 'make check'  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

> 
> Well, we're not supporting dynamically linked objects in a static build ;-)
> 
> It's at least theoretically possible that you could link selected PL
> objects into a static backend build, but no one is particularly
> interested in expending effort on it.  There don't seem to be any
> platforms anymore on which --disable-shared is actually important.
> (Should we just get rid of it?)
> 
>

ISTR having to use --disable-shared to get a working profile-able build 
on some platforms (might have been Solaris 8 with sun complier, but I'm 
not really sure as it was a while ago).

Cheers

Mark




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