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Re: improving PL/Python builds on OS X

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-05-09T14:11:09Z
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On 5/9/13 3:25 AM, Dave Page wrote:
> BTW - it's always worked fine for us on 64 bit machines with the past
> few major releases of both PG and Python - are you saying that's pure
> chance?

It works because ActiveState Python has PIC inside a static library.
But we have no straightforward way of knowing that (AFAIK), other than
observing whether the build result crashes or not.