Re: [PATCHES] Fix for ODBC close

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL odbc list <pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-02-10T11:53:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian writes:

> > The -Bsymbolic switch is the same on all platforms that have it.  You can
> > link without it, but then you won't actually be able to use the ODBC
> > driver.  It seems like you need to link in a few other libraries to
> > resolve all symbols.
>
> OK, if this is true on all platforms, why isn't -lc needed?

Theory 1:  Many other platforms use the compiler driver ([g]cc) to link
shared libraries.  That makes all the right things happen.  Most likely
this should happen on a lot more platforms that currently use ld directly.

Theory 2:  Not many people have tried to build the ODBC driver on
non-mainstream platforms.

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