Hi!
I'm not a linking guru... Is there a penalty for setting LDFLAGS+= -lstdc++
when building postgresql?
> Postgis includes a bunch of useful functions for manipulating spatial
> data. Some of them are provided by geos, a separate c++ library, with
> postgis providing wrappers.
>
> According to postgis docs, postgresql _must_ be configured with LDFLAGS
> containing -lstdc++ for this to work. I can confirm this.
>
> The postgis port provides the WITH_GEOS tunable, but it has no effect
> unless the above adjustment is made to postgresql. The port makes no
> mention of this. Is there a penalty in just leaving
> LDFLAGS+= -lstdc++
> in the postgresql port Makefile? Bad idea? What do you think?
/Palle
