Re: What's with this lib suffix?

Thomas Hallgren wrote:

> In that case, I'd appreciate some advice on how to use the pgxs package
> to compile a 'plug-in'. Looks to me it's only designed to compile
> 'shared libraries'.

You can just use the Makefile.shlib rules normally and then rename the
file during installation. PL/pgSQL does things this way:

# In order to use Makefile.shlib, we allow it to build a static
# library libplpgsql.a, which we just ignore, as well as a shared
# library that it will insist on naming $(shlib). We don't want to
# call it that when installed, however, so we ignore the install-shlib
# rule and do this instead:

install: installdirs all
ifeq ($(enable_shared), yes)
$(INSTALL_SHLIB) $(shlib) $(DESTDIR)$(pkglibdir)/plpgsql$(DLSUFFIX)
else
@echo "*****"; \
echo "* PL/pgSQL was not installed due to lack of shared library support."; \
echo "*****"
endif

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