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Re: AW: [HACKERS] shared lib names

Zeugswetter Andreas <andreas.zeugswetter@telecom.at> — 1999-07-16T18:00:00Z

>> Ok, sorry I see the difference now. Those that are for linking are named
>> lib*.so
>> and those that are for dyn loading into postgres don't have the lib.
>
>What?  They should all have the "lib" AFAIK --- dynamic loading takes
>the same kind of shared lib as a regular link does on every platform
>I've heard about.


We are only talking about the naming convention here.
e.g. libpq.so but plpgsql.so

>I think you were just fooled by having misspelled the "shlib" variable
>the first time around... or, perhaps, our dynlink support for aix
>is confused too?

The dynlink support is broken for plpgsql.so on aix,
unless Bruce applies my patch, which I guess he did for current,
but not for the 6.5.1 branch.

Andreas