Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes: > It bothers me that we don't even *know* the dependancies or even why > they're there. Those autoconf lines have been there ever since autoconf > use was started.
Not all of them. I dug a bit in the cvs history, and found that -lresolv was added quite late, apparently in response to this: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-02/msg00030.php Now that we don't support Kerb4 anymore, maybe we don't need it... but testing with Kerb5 would surely be prudent before deciding that. -lnsl seems to have been there since the beginning. -lPW was added "for SCO support" in 1997: http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/Attic/configure.in.diff?r1=1.64;r2=1.65 regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
