Re: BUG #5351: compiling with --disable-shared is broken (patch included)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jonas Lund <whizzter(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5351: compiling with --disable-shared is broken (patch included)
Date: 2010-03-02 16:44:02
Message-ID: 18087.1267548242@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jonas Lund <whizzter(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> What kind of functionality is tied to shared libs ?

Procedural languages, encoding conversions, walreceiver (in 9.0),
not to mention any sort of add-on such as contrib or pgfoundry modules.

> If building without shared libs isn't supported anymore then i think
> you should disable it altogether in the configure script instead of
> letting it be broken.

+1 from my standpoint. If we did want to continue supporting it we'd
need to think of a way to test it, and I'm not even sure what to test
given the truncated functionality that would be available.

regards, tom lane

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