Re: Testing for a shared library

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Kings-Lynne [mailto:chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au]
> Sent: 07 September 2005 09:16
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: PostgreSQL-development
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Testing for a shared library
>
> >>Is there any way of checking to see if a particular shared
> library is
> >>installed?
> >>
> >>eg. select is_shared_library('$libdir/tsearch2');
> >
> >
> > How well do you know the library you are looking for? You
> could just try
> > creating a function from it and seeing if it fails.
>
> I know it pretty well, but it seems kind of lame to have to
> create the
> function and test for it, especialyl if you have a non-error
> tolerating
> environment.

Yeah, but if you need a quick hack...

> Plus, you have to know what exported functions it has and you have to
> worry about creating any input and return types, etc.

That's why I asked how well you know the library :-)

/D