Re: Build versionless .so for Android

Hi,

Attached a patch with a (hopefully) better wording of the comment.

I have unsuccessfully tried to find an official source for this policy.
So for reference some discussions about the topic:

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11491065/linking-with-versioned-shared-library-in-android-ndk
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18681401/how-can-i-remove-all-versioning-information-from-shared-object-files

Please let me know if I can help in any way

Matthias

On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 6:43 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 1:24 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
> wrote:
> > FWIW, I have mixed feelings about patching the code to treat
> > android-linux as an exception while changing nothing in the
> > documentation to explain why this is required. A custom patch may
> > serve you better here, and note that you did not even touch the meson
> > paths. See libpq_c_args in src/interfaces/libpq/meson.build as one
> > example. That's just my opinion, of course, still there are no
> > buildfarm members that would cover your patch.
>
> It's reasonable to want good comments -- the one in the patch (1)
> doesn't explain why this is required and (2) suggests that it is only
> needed when cross-compiling which seems surprising and (3) has a typo.
> But if it's true that this is needed, I tentatively think we might do
> better to take the patch than force people to carry it out of tree.
>
> --
> Robert Haas
> EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>