Re: Relocatable installs

Jan Wieck wrote:
> Boy, nobody was suggesting 100% static linking. What kind of madness
> are you getting into if you link libpq.a into psql? There is
> something between all or nothing, isn't there?

It's not going to be only psql and libpq.  The next thing is, someone 
wants to have a relocatable libpqxx, or a relocatable PHP, or a 
relocatable MyCoolReplicationSystem.  Before you know it, half the 
world has the other half of the world statically linked.  This can't be 
the solution.