Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za> writes:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:54:56AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I find this pretty suspicious. On my OSX machine, the contents of the
>> pkglibdir directory are all named something.so:
>> dict_snowball.so* utf8_and_euc_jp.so*
> And mine are also .so after doing a regular make build with the same
> tarball (with the exception of those whose name starts with lib*). I
> was under the impression that OS X used .dylib for shared libraries(1)
> - look in /usr/lib for example.
I don't recall the details at the moment, but I think we intentionally
didn't adopt the .dylib extension for these files because of some subtle
difference between them and plain shared libraries. I notice that
"file" describes them as "bundles" whereas what's in /usr/lib seems to
get described as "dynamically linked shared library" ... but the
implications escape my memory.
regards, tom lane