Re: OS X library path issues for libpq (ver 8.3)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Benjamin Reed" <rangerrick(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, "Darren Weber" <darren(dot)weber(dot)lists(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: OS X library path issues for libpq (ver 8.3)
Date: 2008-09-09 19:48:47
Message-ID: 23839.1220989727@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Benjamin Reed" <rangerrick(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>> I'll look at a solution for the installer - it'll probably have to be
>> the symlink unless anyone else has a better idea...

> Another option would be to create them as actual frameworks; instead
> of libpq you'd have /Library/Frameworks/pq.framework (and all the
> files/directories as required) and then people could compile with
> "-framework pq" and the OSX linker would do the write thing without
> having to dirty a system library path (/usr/lib) with symlinks.

Uh, it's not apparent to me why dropping stuff into /Library is any
better than dropping it into /usr/lib?

regards, tom lane

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