On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 09:03:57AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > My point is that we currently, across most of the other platforms, support > building a "proper" static library, and install it too. But on AIX (and I > think mingw), we don't, but without an explicit comment about not doing so. In > fact, the all-static-lib target on those platforms will build a non-static > library, which seems not great.
Yep. If someone had just pushed a correct patch to make AIX match our GNU/Linux static linking assistance, I wouldn't be arguing to revert that patch. At the same time, if someone asks me to choose high-value projects for 20 people, doing more for static linking on AIX won't be on the list. > On 2022-08-17 21:59:29 -0700, Noah Misch wrote: > > Along the lines of Robert's comment, it could be a nice code beautification > > to > > use a different suffix for the short-lived .a file. Perhaps _so_inputs.a. > > Agreed, it'd be an improvement. > > Afaict we could just stop building the intermediary static lib. Afaict the > MKLDEXPORT path isn't needed for libraries without an exports.txt because the > linker defaults to exporting "most" symbols If that works, great.