Re: [HACKERS] 'configure --disable-shared' and 'make check'

2006-09-21 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Tom Lane wrote: Well, we're not supporting dynamically linked objects in a static build ;-) It's at least theoretically possible that you could link selected PL objects into a static backend build, but no one is particularly interested in expending effort on it. There don't seem to be any pla

Re: [HACKERS] 'configure --disable-shared' and 'make check'

2006-09-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Donnerstag, 21. September 2006 16:02 schrieb Tom Lane: > There don't seem to be any > platforms anymore on which --disable-shared is actually important. > (Should we just get rid of it?) IIRC, I added it in the past to test for static-only platforms like QNX. I don't know if we plan to suppor

Re: [HACKERS] 'configure --disable-shared' and 'make check'

2006-09-21 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: It's at least theoretically possible that you could link selected PL objects into a static backend build, but no one is particularly interested in expending effort on it. There don't seem to be any platforms anymore on which --disable-shared is actually important. (Should we just

Re: [HACKERS] 'configure --disable-shared' and 'make check'

2006-09-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Albe Laurenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> Because createlang relies on *dynamic* loading. > So that is working as designed. > I interpret that as 'static builds for the database > server are not supported'. Ok by me. Well, we're not supporting dynamically linked obje

Re: [HACKERS] 'configure --disable-shared' and 'make check'

2006-09-20 Thread Albe Laurenz
Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> I notice that when I run 'make check' on a >> statically linked HEAD, it fails during >> 'createlang' with > > Because createlang relies on *dynamic* loading. So that is working as designed. I interpret that as 'static builds for the database server are not supported'.

Re: [HACKERS] 'configure --disable-shared' and 'make check'

2006-09-20 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Albe Laurenz wrote: > I notice that when I run 'make check' on a > statically linked HEAD, it fails during > 'createlang' with Because createlang relies on *dynamic* loading. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--

[HACKERS] 'configure --disable-shared' and 'make check'

2006-09-20 Thread Albe Laurenz
I notice that when I run 'make check' on a statically linked HEAD, it fails during 'createlang' with == installing plpgsql == ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/plpgsql": No such file or directory command failed: "/postgres/cvs/pgsql/src/test/regress