> This remoinded me of a question I wanted to ask Unix people: other OSs I
> use allow for dynamic linking, at runtime and in code, against shared
> libraries, and I know Unix must allow this. The places where zlib is used
> are pretty limited, so it might be worth considering doing the 'HAVE_ZLIB'
> kinds of checks at runtime. Then one binary fits all...
>
> Is this hard or easy - at least on machines with a libz.so?
>
> Is it worth doing?
>
> I guess the alternative on rpm is to create both: pg_dump.zlib and
> pg_dump.nozlib, and install the right one?
We do dynamic loading for functions. Not sure if we want to load zlib
dynamically if we can help it.
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