Re: PL compilations ignores LDFLAGS

Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM> writes:
> I supposed to do something like this for libpq, libpgtypes and so on.

> *** pgsql.orig.d976d4abedca/src/interfaces/libpq/Makefile 2009-04-23 20:07:21.178749132 +0200
> --- pgsql.orig/src/interfaces/libpq/Makefile 2009-04-23 20:07:21.194173674 +0200
> ***************
> *** 65,70 ****
> --- 65,71 ----
> endif

> SHLIB_EXPORTS = exports.txt
> + rpath = ""

> all: all-lib

That seems like a pretty awful idea. How do you know that the rpath
isn't being used to pick up stuff like openssl?

> For plctl.so I suggest to use path to libtcl.so which can be detect in configure.

I believe that we expect to get any required switches for that out of
the TCL_LIB_SPEC and/or TCL_LIBS variables, which we get from tclconfig.
I wonder if you are working with an improperly configured Tcl
installation.

regards, tom lane