On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Jeroen Ooms <jeroen@berkeley.edu> writes: >> I maintain static libraries for libpq for the R programming language >> (we need static linking to ship with the binary packages). > > How do you get that past vendor packaging policies? When I worked at > Red Hat, there was a very strong policy against allowing any package > to statically embed parts of another one, because it creates serious > management problems if e.g. the other one needs a security update. > I'm sure Red Hat isn't the only distro that feels that way.
We only use this on Windows. On platforms with a decent package manager we indeed link to a shared library.
You shouldn't ever need static libraries on Windows, though. Because it searches the CWD first on its linker search path
