>>Is there any way of checking to see if a particular shared library is
>>installed?
>>
>>eg. select is_shared_library('$libdir/tsearch2');
>
>
> How well do you know the library you are looking for? You could just try
> creating a function from it and seeing if it fails.
I know it pretty well, but it seems kind of lame to have to create the
function and test for it, especialyl if you have a non-error tolerating
environment.
Plus, you have to know what exported functions it has and you have to
worry about creating any input and return types, etc.
Chris