Re: Makefile breakage

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> You can't just arbitrarily pull in libpgport.a everywhere that libpq.so
> >> is used. That breaks anything that requires position-independent code
> >> ... for instance ecpglib.
>
> > Strange because it worked on my BSD system and I do compile ecpg. What
> > do you suggest? Is this worth fixing somehow?
>
> Intel machines tend not to care whether code is officially
> position-independent or not. Most other platforms are sticky about it.
> You don't have a choice whether to fix it.
>
> I think you should leave the $(libpq) macro alone and add a $(libpgport)
> macro ... and yes, you will have to go around and modify the client
> program Makefiles individually.

How is this? It creates a new $(libpq_only) for library usage.
ecpglib/Makefile is the only place I saw that can use it.

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