Re: [HACKERS] 4 pgcrypto regressions failures - 1 unsolved

Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> writes:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
>> This sure seems like a crude band-aid rather than an actual solution.
>> The bug as I see it is that gcc is choosing to link libz.a rather than
>> libz.so --- why is that happening?

> The link line says -L/usr/local/lib -lz and libz.a is in /usr/local/lib
> while libz.so is in /usr/lib.

Well, that is a flat-out configuration error on the local sysadmin's
part.  I can't think of any good reason for the .so and .a versions of a
library to live in different places.  We certainly shouldn't hack our
build process to build deliberately-inefficient object files in order to
accommodate such a setup.

            regards, tom lane