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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
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Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
>> On September 26, 2018 9:03:05 PM PDT, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>>  # libpgport is needed by some contrib
>>> +# currently we don't install libpgport_shlib.a, maybe we should?

> Likely you should as this could be used directly by out-of-core things.

Maybe, but what things exactly?  Extension modules don't need it, as
they just call the versions built into the core backend.

			regards, tom lane