Re: Threading with non-shared libraries

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
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 17:35:34
Message-ID: 200412151835.34564.peter_e@gmx.net
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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.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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