Re: Building Pg 8.2.4 on AIX 5.3 doesn't produce shared libs?

> Sic Transit Gloria Mundi writes:
>> I would like to use Perl, DBI, and DBD::Pg on AIX. As I
>> understand it, I need a shared lib version of the client libs
>> for this.
>>
>> When building on AIX5.3 ML04 (powerpc_power5, 64 bit), it
>> seems only the static libraries are built. This seems true
>> with either xlc (8.x) or gcc (3.3.2). Everything works,
>> there are just no ./lib/*.so at the end of the process.
>
> IIRC, on AIX the .a files actually are shared libraries. You don't
need
> anything named .so. Check the -hackers and -patches archives from
back
> around mid-Sept 2006 for details.

Correct. libpq.a IS the shared library.
Run 'ar -t libpq.a' to see the shared object therein.

Try to run 'ldd psql', the output should contain 'libpq.a(libpq.so)'
if it is dynamically linked.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe