Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL supported platform report and a patch.

Billy, so your rpath changes are for handling customization you made to
your OS. Sounds like a feature addition to me, which will go into 7.4
only.

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Billy G. Allie wrote:
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> Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > > Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> writes:
> > >> I don't believe your changes are necessary.
> > >
> > > The static-inline change was obsoleted by a recent fix, per discussion.
> > > But the rpath changes seem possibly useful (or maybe my thoughts are
> > > just colored by the fact that I'm currently trying to persuade OpenSSL
> > > to build with a non-broken rpath setup on HPUX...) Do you have an
> > > objection to the rpath part of Billy's patch?
> >
> > Not necessarily. I was just concerned about the tuplesort one, and the fact
> > that mine builds and passes without the changes.
>
> Larry,
>
> You probably have /usr/local/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH. On my system
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH defaults to /usr/X/lib:/lib and LD_RUN_PATH are not set, and I
> prefer it that way. The rpath related changes allow me to specify the
> additional library search paths by using the configure --with-libraries option
> and have those paths placed into the executable so that the executables can
> run without having to the default setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> After reading the discussions, I can think of another enhancement to the rpath
> changes: have the contents of LD_LIBRARY_PATH added to the -R (or -rpath)
> option inside the port specific makefile. That way, if you add the additional
> search paths to LD_LIBRARY_PATH you won't have to use the --with-libraries and
> the executable(s) will have the runtime search paths in them so they will
> execute without having to change the default LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting.
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