Re: 8.4 TODO item: make src/port support libpq and ecpg directly

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.4 TODO item: make src/port support libpq and ecpg directly
Date: 2007-10-04 22:16:13
Message-ID: 4705662D.10501@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> This business with having libpq and ecpg pull in src/port modules
> manually is getting unmaintainable. I wonder whether we could persuade
> src/port to generate three versions of libpgport.a --- backend,
> frontend, and frontend-shlib-ready --- and then just -l the appropriate
> one in libpq and ecpg. This'd waste a few cycles building modules that
> would never be used, but on the other hand we'd buy some of that back
> by not building the same object files three or four times.
>
>
>
Works for me.

cheers

andrew

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