Re: Relocatable installs

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Relocatable installs
Date: 2004-05-18 21:44:44
Message-ID: 200405182344.44225.peter_e@gmx.net
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Jan Wieck wrote:
> Boy, nobody was suggesting 100% static linking. What kind of madness
> are you getting into if you link libpq.a into psql? There is
> something between all or nothing, isn't there?

It's not going to be only psql and libpq. The next thing is, someone
wants to have a relocatable libpqxx, or a relocatable PHP, or a
relocatable MyCoolReplicationSystem. Before you know it, half the
world has the other half of the world statically linked. This can't be
the solution.

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