Victor Duchovni:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 02:47:22PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> Well, the same Makefiles could support static linking on some platforms
> and dynamic linking and loading on others (known to support this).
Sorry, it's also against my principle to require a postfix-to-gmake
dependency on all platforms.
Wietse
