Victor Duchovni:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 01:45:29PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > That requires dynamic linking as in the DEBIAN port of Postfix.
> >
> > I have yet to overcome my my aversion against monstrosities such
> > as Libtool and Autobloat. Until then, use the source, or use the
> > DEBIAN port.
>
> The Tcl project (to which I contributed some code in the 90's) had at
> the time dynamic loading support on a large number of platforms with no
> libstool or autobloat. Just some sensible indirection in the Makefile
> for CC and LD flags for creating shared libraries and a per-platform
> switch for which flavour of dl-load API to use.
>
> The sensible thing IMHO (since Postfix does not attempt to support
> never-before-seen platforms) is to do what Tcl does (or at least did in
> the 7.4/8.0 time-frame).
This means maintaining parallel sets of Makefiles: the existing
Makefiles for static linking on older OS releases, and a new set
of Makefiles for dynamic linking on current and future platforms.
It's not practical to verify dynamic linking on all older OS
releases, and it's against my principles to force people to run
only the latest Postfix release on only the latest OS release.
Wietse
