On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:40:08PM -0700, pramsey@refractions.net wrote:
> - linking against libuuid is fine for a contrib/ extension, but no
> good for a built-in type. A real uuid would have to do a proper
> independent implementation of uuid creation within pgsql.
Why?
I'm not sure what the default build instructions are, but i've got
the following on my linux box...
granicus:~% ldd /usr/bin/postgres linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00368000) libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0
(0x00311000) libssl.so.5 => /lib/libssl.so.5 (0x009b3000) libcrypto.so.5 => /lib/libcrypto.so.5 (0x00507000)
libkrb5.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3 (0x003ab000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00c55000)
libreadline.so.5=> /usr/lib/libreadline.so.5 (0x00c6a000) libtermcap.so.2 => /lib/libtermcap.so.2 (0x00dfa000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x009f7000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x0014e000)
libnsl.so.1=> /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x00a62000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00c4f000) libm.so.6 =>
/lib/libm.so.6(0x00c29000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00afd000) libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/libcom_err.so.2
(0x0038e000) libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x0099a000) libk5crypto.so.3 =>
/usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3(0x00483000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00adf000) libkrb5support.so.0 =>
/usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0(0x0041f000)
Quite a list. I wonder what readline is doing there.
It would appear that linking against libraries is just fine, I don't
see that uuid is any different.
> - we cannot snarf libuuid code, it is LGPL (though perhaps the author
> would re-license. if that is the *only* objection, it is well worth
> asking)
Not sure what uuid library you were using, but the one i used
is not LGPL. I posted earlier the copyright and license portion of
the readme. No relicensing would be necessary.
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Nathan Wagner