Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic linking on AIX

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) writes: Great, I have added this to the bottom of the AIX FAQ. Thanks. It seems to me that this also warrants an entry in the release notes. I'd think that an entry in the Source Code Changes section, immediately after the Reduce libraries linked into the

Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic linking on AIX

2006-09-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
Chris Browne wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) writes: Great, I have added this to the bottom of the AIX FAQ. Thanks. It seems to me that this also warrants an entry in the release notes. I'd think that an entry in the Source Code Changes section, immediately after the Reduce

Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic linking on AIX

2006-09-19 Thread Albe Laurenz
This is a second try; this patch replaces http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-09/msg00185.php Incorporated are - Tom Lane's suggestions for a more sane approach at fixing Makefile.shlib - Rocco Altier's additions to make the regression test run by setting LIBPATH appropriately.

Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic linking on AIX

2006-09-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
I still would like to see a paragraph describing how AIX is different from other platforms and what we are doing here. --- Albe Laurenz wrote: This is a second try; this patch replaces

Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic linking on AIX

2006-09-19 Thread Albe Laurenz
I still would like to see a paragraph describing how AIX is different from other platforms and what we are doing here. Ok, I'll try to sum it up: Shared libraries in AIX are different from shared libraries in Linux. A shared library on AIX is an 'ar' archive containing shared objects. A

Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic linking on AIX

2006-09-19 Thread Tom Lane
Albe Laurenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a second try; this patch replaces http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-09/msg00185.php Looks good, applied. The line in src/makefiles/Makefile.aix where I set 'libpath' also seems pretty ugly to me. It will fail if there is a -L

Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic linking on AIX

2006-09-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Great, I have added this to the bottom of the AIX FAQ. Thanks. --- Albe Laurenz wrote: I still would like to see a paragraph describing how AIX is different from other platforms and what we are doing here. Ok, I'll

[PATCHES] Dynamic linking on AIX

2006-09-15 Thread Albe Laurenz
This patch fixes linking on AIX. Relevant threads on psql-hackers: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01020.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01084.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01109.php Up to now, the default on AIX