Re: AIX support

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> writes:
> Regarding patch 0004, please see the thread
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e8aa97db-872b-4087-b073-f296baae948d%40eisentraut.org
> which is developing a more general and more robust version of that patch.

Ah.  I don't object to having a more general version, as long as
the AIX patch can auto-disable static libraries rather than having
a gotcha "it breaks with a mysterious error if you don't say this".

However ... this bit of that patchset is a problem:

> The internal use static libraries like libpgcommon.a are still built in
> any case, but if you disable static libraries, they are not installed.

If we want to replicate the port's historical behavior, it needs to
install those by default.  So we need something more fine-grained
than "all statics" or "no statics" internally.

            regards, tom lane