On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 1:18 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> We could fix this by teaching configure to absorb -Wl,-R... switches
> into LDFLAGS from xml2-config's output, and that seems to make things
> work, but I wonder whether we should or not.  This seems like a new height
> of unfriendliness to non-default packages on NetBSD's part, and it's a bit
> hard to believe the behavior will make it to a formal release.

I kind of agree with Nico: why do we think we get to tell operating
system distributions which switches they're allowed to need to make
things work?  The point of things like pg_config and xmlconfig is to
reveal what is needed.  If we editorialize on that, we do so at our
own risk.

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Robert Haas
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