(See part 1 for general introduction) LibreOffice currently - when it rebuilds libpq, such as for most of our official binaries - links statically against libpq.
I noticed that pg_config does not give the information of what additional libraries to include in the link to resolve all symbols that libpq needs: * On the one hand, it gives too much since LIBS is filtered to only a subset in src/interface/libpq/Makefile. * On the other hand, it does not give enough, since it does not give the value of LDAP_LIBS_FE anywhere, nor say if it is necessary to add PTHREAD_LIBS. This is not an immediate problem for LibreOffice: I export the value of SHLIB_EXPORTS from src/interface/libpq/Makefile as a Makefile snippet that gets imported in our build system or (on Microsoft Windows) we just proceeded by "trial and error" until the link succeeds. However, I suggest it would be cleaner to give that kind of information in pg_config, so that one can basically do something like: $LINK_COMMAND -lpq $(pg_config --libpq-dep-libs) and have it work automatically. You could also provide a pq.pc file for pkgconfig, which would give nice nearly-automatic integration for projects using e.g. autoconf and friends. -- Lionel -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
