| From: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, "mlw" <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: contrib and licensing |
| Date: | 2003-04-03 16:38:59 |
| Message-ID: | 200304031138.59598.lamar.owen@wgcr.org |
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On Thursday 03 April 2003 09:29, Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:
> >>> And its stubs are in the backend, of all places.
> >> Really? I must have missed that.
> > On Linux as compiled in Red Hat 9, at least:
> > [lowen(at)localhost lowen]$ ldd /usr/bin/postgres
> > libreadline.so.4 => /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4 (0x401c6000)
> That's because our build mechanism links *all* needed libraries in *all*
> executables, rather than trying to distinguish which ones are actually
> used by each executable. The ldd indication is the only connection to
> libreadline --- if it had been a statically-linked situation, you'd find
> no trace of readline (nor several other of these libraries, I suspect)
> in the backend executable.
As I said, its 'stub' is there.
But it is in (and used by) psql (as of 7.3.2).
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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