From: Metin Ozisik <metin@evincetek.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Build issues: "-static" builds resulting initdb problems
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 12:25:39 -0700
Message-ID: <000501c54dba$6bab2040$3401a8c0@pengu> (raw)
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Correct. A static binary is perfectly capable of dynamic-loading shared
objects; therefore "-static" should not shadow "-E". I will forward this to
linker folks. In the meantime, if you guys can provide self-sufficient
conversion shared-objects by any chance in some future release perhaps, that
will be much appreciated.
Regards,
-metin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Metin Ozisik" <metin@evincetek.com>
Cc: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [SQL] Build issues: "-static" builds resulting initdb problems
> "Metin Ozisik" <metin@evincetek.com> writes:
>> The purpose of using static linking is to reduce dependencies to
>> shared-libraries (dependencies to different types and versions of Linux),
>> so
>> an instance of postgreSQL, say built on Suse 9.0, would still work on
>> Mandrake 10.1. Yes it gets a bit bulky and have a number of disadvantages
>> over dynamic linking (on the plus side it would be a bit faster), however
>> the main motivater is binary portability.
>
> Well, both the PL languages and the character set conversion support are
> *only* buildable as shared libraries right now. If you want to
> statically link those into the main backend build, you can probably do
> it, but it will take some nontrivial hacking.
>
> In the meantime it would appear that your linker ignores the -E (export
> all symbols) switch when -static is specified. I suppose it thinks
> that not only don't you want any shared libraries now, but you won't
> want any dynamically loaded libraries later. This is a Bad Idea;
> complain to the linker hackers about it.
>
> regards, tom lane
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