Jeroen Ooms <jer...@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. I think you'd be better advised to fix things so you can link with the standard shared-library version of libpq (and whatever else you're doing this with). > This works but it's a bit of a pain to maintain. I was wondering if > this hack could be merged so that the standard 'configure > --enable-static' script would install a static library for libpq > alongside the shared one. FWIW, we used to have support for building static libpq, but we got rid of it a long time ago. I couldn't find the exact spot in some desultory trawling of the commit history. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers