Tom Lane wrote: > Hardwiring /usr/share/zoneinfo > into the binary is isomorphic to having it use a symlink defined that > way, as far as the objections to absolute symlinks go.
That just shows how silly the relative symlink requirement is in the first place. If setting a symlink and hardcoding a path are isomorphic, then all compiled in path references would have to be relative as well. PostgreSQL went through some effort to support that (within the package!), but surely most packages do not support it (at all). Note, for example, that libc refers to /usr/share/zoneinfo by absolute path. In fact, any use of any absolute path anywhere would have to be examined. Just grep /etc for a thousand likely candidates. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
