Changes to building dynamically loadable modules

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Changes to building dynamically loadable modules
Date: 2008-04-02 19:10:16
Message-ID: 200804022110.19077.peter_e@gmx.net
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The attached patch implements a few changes to how shared libraries and
dynamically loadable modules are built. Foremost, it creates a solid
distinction between these two types of targets based on what had already been
implemented and duplicated in ad hoc ways before. Specifically,

- Dynamically loadable modules no longer get a soname. The numbers previously
set in the makefiles were dummy numbers anyway, and the presence of a soname
upset a few packaging tools, so it is nicer not to have one.

- The cumbersome detour taken on installation (build a libfoo.so.0.0.0 and
then override the rule to install foo.so instead) is removed.

- Lots of duplicated code simplified.

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modules-without-soname.patch text/x-diff 26.7 KB

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