Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 06:30:59PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> >
> > > Attached is a patch which applies this filtering to the backend and has
> > > the same results as linking with --as-needed. I basically took the
> > > filter list of libpq and altered it as follows:
> > >
> > > libs removed: -lnsl -lresolv
> > > libs added: -ldl -lm
> >
> > Hmm, we don't need -ldl? How do we implement OPEN etc if not without
> > dlopen()? [looks around] I see this is with pg_dlopen which in turn is
> > dlopen in Linux and others. Did you try contrib's regression test?
> > plperl's?
>
> ??? I added -ldl, I didn't remove it. Note, it uses $(filter) which
> removes things not in the list. Maybe you're thinking of $(filter-out)?
> None of this affects contrib or plperl because they use completely
> different link lines.
Yeah, I got the sense of it backwards. I mentioned plperl and contrib
just because they use our dynlib loading facility.
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