Re: [Patch] Add missing libraries to Libs.private of libpq.pc

Sandro Mani <manisandro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> The following patch, which we added to build mingw-postgresql on Fedora,
> adds some missing libraries to Libs.private of libpq.pc, discovered when
> attempting to statically link with libpq:

TBH, I think we should just reject this patch. We do not encourage or
support statically linking libpq (and I thought that was against
distro-level policies in Fedora, as well --- such policies certainly
existed when I worked for Red Hat). Moreover, the proposed patch
requires us to absorb assumptions about the dependencies of external
libraries that we really shouldn't be making. I fear that it risks
causing new problems on other platforms, or at the very least
unnecessarily bloating libpq's dependency footprint. In particular,
creating a hard dependency on -liconv regardless of build options
seems right out.

regards, tom lane