On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 05:58:27PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > I was also slightly dubious about it. However, we do still need to > > solve the problem that the patch addressed. Buildfarm members > > platypus and cuckoo are currently failing because dblink is picking > > up the wrong libpq (and it appears that incorrect libraries are also > > being picked up in the ecpg libraries, although this isn't causing a > > buildfarm failure.) > > We have four pieces of information when linking a shared library: > > B: in-tree libraries that we might need (in case of ecpglib: libpq) > A: path to those in-tree libraries
Is A even represented in the build at all right now? ISTM it's not, so simply adding it in front of C might suffice. What would be a reasonable way to add that to the makefiles? > D: external libraries that we might need (in case of ecpglib in my case: > -lcrypt -lm) > C: path to those external libraries (e.g., /usr/local/lib) > > On the linker command line, we need this information in one of the > following two orders: > > A B C D > A C B D > > The Makefile.shlib receives from the respective main makefile "A B D" in > SHLIB_LINK and would have to insert "C" in the middle somewhere. > Currently, the actual behavior is "C A B D" and the failed patch wanted > to do "A B D C", both of which are wrong. > > So either we code up some intelligence to put the "C" in the right > position or we have to pass down "A B" and "D" separately from the main > makefile. > > -- > Peter Eisentraut > http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings > -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
