Re: [HACKERS] 4 pgcrypto regressions failures - 1 unsolved

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
Cc: Marko Kreen <marko(at)l-t(dot)ee>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 4 pgcrypto regressions failures - 1 unsolved
Date: 2005-07-16 16:15:08
Message-ID: 1444.1121530508@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com> writes:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
>> This sure seems like a crude band-aid rather than an actual solution.
>> The bug as I see it is that gcc is choosing to link libz.a rather than
>> libz.so --- why is that happening?

> The link line says -L/usr/local/lib -lz and libz.a is in /usr/local/lib
> while libz.so is in /usr/lib.

Well, that is a flat-out configuration error on the local sysadmin's
part. I can't think of any good reason for the .so and .a versions of a
library to live in different places. We certainly shouldn't hack our
build process to build deliberately-inefficient object files in order to
accommodate such a setup.

regards, tom lane

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