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. -- Tristan Partin Databricks (https://databricks.com)
