Re: AIX shared libraries

"Albe Laurenz" <all@adv.magwien.gv.at> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hm.  The objection I see to this is that it will not support 
>> concurrent installation of multiple libpq versions.  What about
>> 
>> 4) Build and install only libXX.so.n, don't install libXX.a at all

> Won't work - the linker looks for libXX.so and won't find
> libXX.so.n. If you create a symbolic link
> libXX.so --> libXX.so.n, you can link, but the executable will
> depend on libXX.so and not on libXX.so.n.

Ugh.  So given that linker behavior, it's basically impossible to
support multiple libpq versions in the same directory anyway on AIX.

I concur with your 3a) then.  Do you have time to do that now?
        regards, tom lane