Re: linking hba.c

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-08-25T23:26:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > In trying to decide how to keep ODBC compilable standalone, I can't
> > figure out how to get md5.c in there from backend/libpq.
> 
> AFAIK ODBC hasn't been compilable standalone for awhile; doesn't it
> depend on our toplevel configure script now?

The Unix version is not compilable on its own, but I see no code in
win32.mak that refers to upper directories.

> 
> > Is it crazy to
> > put md5.c in interfaces/odbc and symlink it from there to backend/libpq
> > and interfaces/libpq?
> 
> YES, that's crazy.  If you think ODBC should build separately, then give
> it its own copy of md5.c.  But please first check that your assumption
> is still valid.

And I will just throw a note at the top of each mentioning they should
be identical.

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