Re: meson: Allow disabling static libraries

On Tue Jan 20, 2026 at 1:04 AM CST, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> This patch allows disabling the build of static libraries using the
> standard meson option -Ddefault_library=shared (defaults to "both").
> This option would work out of the box if you use the library() function
> to build libraries, but we use shared_library() and static_library()
> separately, for reasons that are explained in
> src/interfaces/libpq/meson.build.  So now with this, the option works
> again as expected from the end user's perspective.
>
> This approach was suggested by Tristan Partin over in the AIX thread[0],
> but I figured this could be a generally usable feature, as some
> distributions don't want to build static libraries.
>
> For illustration and continuous testing, I disabled static libraries in
> the CI SanityCheck task.

Maybe a better test would be to install the build tree into a DESTDIR,
and then do a `find $DESTDIR -type f -name '*.a'` and confirm that no
static libraries were installed.

Otherwise, the patch looks good.

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Tristan Partin
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