From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Christoph Zwerschke <cito@online.de>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Finding the pqlib version
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:40:22 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200602111740.k1BHeMY01646@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43EE066B.7000900@online.de>
Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > You should query the presence of the function, not the version of the
> > library.
>
> Yes, but it will complicate things. I will probably have to use
> something like "configure" to do this. So far, this hasn't been
> necessary. So I'd prefer a simple hack. Or how would you to this?
I was wondering that myself. I am thinking you would need to use
dlopen() to check for the symbol. Because the libpq version could
change after you compile, I can't see how you could make it a configure
check unless you said you don't allow changes to libpq after the build.
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