Re: [PORTS] PostgreSQL supported platform report and a

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: "Billy G. Allie" <Bill.Allie@mug.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-11-09T16:29:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Billy G. Allie writes:

> I disagree that it's a new feature.  The code to add the -rpath (-R) option
> was already there.  My patch made it more useful in that the additional search
> libraries are now placed in the -rpath (-R) option.

Yeah, you're doing additional things, so it's a new feature.  The fact
that you were able to reuse existing code is commendable but does not
create an exception.

> As to doing it on all platforms, that would be a decision for the
> maintainers of that platforms port.

The "rpath" feature behaves consistently across platforms and PostgreSQL
makes consistent use of it, so it does not qualify as a porting issue.
The last thing I'd want to see is that every platform looks for the
libraries in different ways.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net