Re: Libpq is not a shared library on Mac OS X

From: Benjamin Reed <ranger(at)befunk(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Kenji Sugita <sugita(at)srapc1327(dot)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Libpq is not a shared library on Mac OS X
Date: 2003-01-02 19:08:57
Message-ID: 1041534540.4867.65.camel@linux-ben
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On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 13:38, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Kenji Sugita writes:
>
> > A libpq library on Mac OS X is made as a loadable library (bundle). Since a
> > shared library version (dylib) of libpq does not exist, all programs which
> > use libpq are always linked with a static version of libpq.
>
> Since only Mac OS X has this stupid dichotomy, no one has bothered to do
> anything about it yet. Feel free to propose a solution.

I have a fix for it in the Fink packages. It needs a little reworking,
but basically works.

Give me a few minutes, I'll clean up the patch a bit and pass it on. Is
it OK to post it here, or is there somewhere better to send it?

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