| From: | Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Albe Laurenz <all(at)adv(dot)magwien(dot)gv(dot)at>, Peter Eisentraut *EXTERN* <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: 'configure --disable-shared' and 'make check' |
| Date: | 2006-09-21 21:57:14 |
| Message-ID: | 45130ABA.5030201@paradise.net.nz |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Well, we're not supporting dynamically linked objects in a static build ;-)
>
> It's at least theoretically possible that you could link selected PL
> objects into a static backend build, but no one is particularly
> interested in expending effort on it. There don't seem to be any
> platforms anymore on which --disable-shared is actually important.
> (Should we just get rid of it?)
>
>
ISTR having to use --disable-shared to get a working profile-able build
on some platforms (might have been Solaris 8 with sun complier, but I'm
not really sure as it was a while ago).
Cheers
Mark
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