"Rocco Altier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It seems highly unlikely that this will accomplish anything, >> given that SHLIB_LINK is not used to construct regress.so. >> > I have another patch in queue for this.
Oh, I see, you want to use SHLIB_LINK in the %$(DLSUFFIX): %.o rule. > Right now there are 2 different sets of linker rules. One for a single > file -> .so (from Makefile.aix), and another for multiple files -> > lib<files>.so (from Makefile.shlib). Actually, that's not the reason it's like this, at all. The percent-rules in the per-platform Makefiles are a hangover from long before we had Makefile.shlib, and most of them pretty well suck. As noted in Makefile.hpux, # Rule for building shared libs (currently used only for regression test # shlib ... should go away, since this is not really enough knowledge) As far as I can see, src/test/regress/GNUmakefile is the only place still depending on those rules. I've wanted for quite some time to change the regression makefile to use Makefile.shlib to build regress.so, whereupon we could get rid of the percent-rules in the per-platform Makefiles entirely. Maybe it's time to have a go at that. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend