Re: static or dynamic libpgport

On 12/09/2011 06:27 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> In the Fedora world, a static lib would go in postgresql-devel, but a
>> dynamic lib would go in postgresql-libs, which is also where libpq is
>> shipped.
> I am not against shipping a dynamic libpgport, but I will just point out
> that this was never intended or anticipated.  Are there any symbols in
> there that might conflict with other software?




Possibly. Below is a list of symbols from a recent build. The other 
thing is we'd need to turn on flags that make the object suitable for a 
dynamic library (e.g. -fpic). I'm not sure if that has any significant 
impact - probably not or else people would avoid using them far more.

I think we should deal with this. Just Peter's and Steve's responses 
upthread indicate a demand, and I came into this because a customer 
encountered enormous difficulty in doing an out of tree build of a well 
known piece of support software, so this is clearly a pain point. If 
we're not going to do it, we should probably think about adjusting 
people's expectations.

    [andrew@diego port]$ nm libpgport.a | grep ' T '
    00000000 T strlcat
    00000000 T strlcpy
    00000000 T getpeereid
    00000000 T pg_get_encoding_from_locale
    00000000 T pgfnames
    000001a0 T pgfnames_cleanup
    000001e0 T rmtree
    00000240 T find_my_exec
    000005f0 T find_other_exec
    00000500 T pclose_check
    00000760 T set_pglocale_pgservice
    00000000 T inet_net_ntop
    00000030 T pg_set_block
    00000000 T pg_set_noblock
    00000280 T canonicalize_path
    00000110 T first_dir_separator
    00000140 T first_path_var_separator
    00000800 T get_doc_path
    00000720 T get_etc_path
    00000860 T get_home_path
    00000820 T get_html_path
    00000740 T get_include_path
    00000780 T get_includeserver_path
    000007a0 T get_lib_path
    000007e0 T get_locale_path
    00000840 T get_man_path
    000008e0 T get_parent_directory
    00000760 T get_pkginclude_path
    000007c0 T get_pkglib_path
    00000690 T get_progname
    00000700 T get_share_path
    000001b0 T join_path_components
    00000170 T last_dir_separator
    000001a0 T make_native_path
    00000560 T path_contains_parent_reference
    00000630 T path_is_prefix_of_path
    00000610 T path_is_relative_and_below_cwd
    00000000 T pg_check_dir
    00000000 T pg_mkdir_p
    00000000 T pg_usleep
    00000330 T pg_ascii_tolower
    00000310 T pg_ascii_toupper
    00000000 T pg_strcasecmp
    00000100 T pg_strncasecmp
    00000290 T pg_tolower
    00000210 T pg_toupper
    000000d0 T pg_qsort
    000000f0 T qsort_arg
    00000000 T simple_prompt
    00000010 T pqGetpwuid
    00000000 T pqStrerror


cheers

andrew