| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Relocatable installs |
| Date: | 2004-05-18 20:14:02 |
| Message-ID: | 200405182014.i4IKE2M28471@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > We already have --disable-rpath. Seems we would just need something
> > to use the *.a files.
>
> I think it is perfectly sufficient to say that if you want a relocatable
> install, don't use rpath. Static linking will lead to all other kinds
> of madness.
OK, but if we don't use rpath, don't we have to do the ld.so.conf or
environment varaible usage so we can find our shared library. I assume
the big problem with rpath is that it might find the wrong version of
our library, right? Is there another downside to it being set?
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