On 9 December 2011 16:13, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> Is there any good reason why we shouldn't build and install a dynamic
> libpgport.so?
+1 in favour of building and installing a dynamic libpgport.so. I
generally agree with your analysis.
I've seen this issue crop up a good few times now. I'm a Fedora user
myself, but about 2 years ago I got into a "he said she said"
situation with an OpenSUSE package maintainer over this, when I had to
build Slony on that platform. I'm a bit hazy on the details now, but
iirc he thought that it wasn't necessary to ship libpgport.a in
particular (though I don't think that they have a beef with static
libraries generally) - maybe they took a cue from Redhat there?
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