From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200602111740.k1BHeMY01646@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: Finding the pqlib version
In-Reply-To: <43EE066B.7000900@online.de>
To: Christoph Zwerschke <cito@online.de>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:40:22 -0500 (EST)
CC: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
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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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