Wow. I think I will hold for a while.
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Oh, so you are saying let most uses of src/port use the *.o files that
> > are in the directory, and it isn't needed to have other directories use
> > the link trick. Just let me know what people want.
>
> What I want is this:
>
> In configure.in, call
>
> AC_REPLACE_FUNCS([inet_aton ...]) # the whole list
>
> If you need more sophisticated checks on top of "function exists", you
> keep the existing tests, but instead of, say,
>
> SNPRINTF=snprintf.c
> AC_SUBST(SNPRINTF)
>
> you'd call
>
> AC_LIBOBJ(snprintf)
>
> In Makefile.global.in:
>
> LIBOBJS = @LIBOBJS@
>
> In utils/port/Makefile:
>
> libpgport.a: $(LIBOBJS)
> ar crs $@ $^
>
> In Makefile.global.in:
>
> Add -L$(top_builddir)/src/port to LDFLAGS (near the start), -lpgport to
> LIBS (near the end).
>
> Then you need to make sure that the src/port directory is build before
> being referred to.
>
> In the libpq makefile, you can write the rules like:
>
> ifneq(,$(filter snprintf.o, $(LIBOBJS)))
> # do what it's doing now in case of 'ifdef SNPRINF'
> endif
>
>
> Caveat implementor.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net
>
>
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