Re: Threading with non-shared libraries

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Frank van Vugt <ftm(dot)van(dot)vugt(at)foxi(dot)nl>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Threading with non-shared libraries
Date: 2004-12-15 17:38:46
Message-ID: 200412151738.iBFHcki20696@candle.pha.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > OK, it took me a while to figure this out, but it is similar to the
> > problem we have on AIX. AIX shared libraries don't track other
> > libraries needed by the shared library, and non-shared libraries also
> > have no such dependency information.
>
> I'm pretty sure that static linking is completely broken for nontrivial
> configurations because of this issue. If we want to support that, we
> should do an all-out fix, not a fix for one library and one platform.

Right. My idea is that we need that code on AIX or when doing static
builds on any platform.

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