Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL 6.5.1: libpq++ libraries on IRIX 6.5

Hi Tom, thanks for the tip. I ended up just adding a few lines to
Makefile.shlib. Attached is the context diff. The patch has been
tested on IRIX 6.5.2 with MIPSpro C and C++ compiler version 7.2.1
using -n32 ABI.

--Yu Cao

On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Tom Lane wrote:

> Yu Cao  writes:
> > I'm not sure whether using "CC" to create libraries for the pure C
> > modules would work (my guess is it should and I'll try it). If it does
> > then it'll be easy to patch the IRIX makefile template. But then the
> > downside is people will be required to have the C++ compiler even if
> > they don't care about libpq++.
> 
> Not necessarily.  Since 6.4 or so, the "template" files are not just
> static assignments of variable values --- they can actually contain
> arbitrary fragments of shell script (see configure.in's code that
> reads them).  So you could do something like
> 	if [ -x /usr/bin/CC ]
> 	then
> 		CC= CC
> 	else
> 		CC= cc
> 	fi
> in the IRIX template.
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 
> ************
> 
> 
> 
*** Makefile.shlib.orig	Sun Sep  5 23:30:36 1999
--- Makefile.shlib	Sun Sep  5 23:41:09 1999
***************
*** 61,66 ****
--- 61,72 ----
    shlib := lib$(NAME)$(DLSUFFIX).$(SO_MAJOR_VERSION).$(SO_MINOR_VERSION)
    LDFLAGS_SL := -shared
    CFLAGS += $(CFLAGS_SL)
+   ifeq ($(NAME), pq++)
+     AR := CC
+     AROPT := -ar -o
+     LD := CC
+     LDFLAGS_SL := -shared
+   endif
  endif
  
  ifeq ($(PORTNAME), freebsd)