Re: [HACKERS] is allow_nonpic_in_shlib still useful?

2012-12-15 Thread Noah Misch
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 01:23:38AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote: In the plperl and plpython makefiles we look for a shared library of libperl or libpython, and if it's not found, we check for allow_nonpic_in_shlib, and if that's yes, then we proceed anyway. Apparently, and IIRC, this was set

Re: [HACKERS] is allow_nonpic_in_shlib still useful?

2012-12-15 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: In the plperl and plpython makefiles we look for a shared library of libperl or libpython, and if it's not found, we check for allow_nonpic_in_shlib, and if that's yes, then we proceed anyway. Apparently, and IIRC, this was set up in a time when those

[HACKERS] is allow_nonpic_in_shlib still useful?

2012-12-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
In the plperl and plpython makefiles we look for a shared library of libperl or libpython, and if it's not found, we check for allow_nonpic_in_shlib, and if that's yes, then we proceed anyway. Apparently, and IIRC, this was set up in a time when those shared libraries were not available through