From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [patch] build issues on Win32 |
Date: | 2010-03-12 00:46:30 |
Message-ID: | 20100312004630.GM5617@fetter.org |
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:34:34PM -0800, Steve Atkins wrote:
> On Mar 11, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > BTW, I'm not sure I buy the argument that commercial software
> > requires static linking. Red Hat would be as interested in that
> > market as anybody, and as I said, they don't think it's necessary
> > to ship static libraries (with a *very* short list of exceptions).
>
> Trying to support a binary distributed[1] application on a dozen or
> more different distributions is fairly painful (I'm building on four
> Debians, eight Ubuntus, several RHELs, three Solarises and a few
> others right now), and the biggest problem is the different
> distributions don't package all the libraries you need, and when
> they do they include a wide range of versions, often woefully
> obsolete.
I've found it easiest to ship all of PostgreSQL rather than deal with
this kind of stuff.
Cheers,
David.
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