Re: libpq and libecpg problems on MacOs-X (Panther/10.3.3)

Benjamin Reed wrote:
> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>
> > I attach a patch which fixes this for MacOS-X 10.3.3, by altering the
> > makefiles to understand the two ways of building a library/bundle and
> > having a variable setting 'BUNDLE=no' to day that the normal dynamic
> > library should be built rather than a bundle.  The patch alters the
> > libecpg and libpq makefiles to set this variable, so these two are built
> > as normal dynamic libraries, while the other code continues to be built
> > as bundles.
>
> This is essentially doing the same thing as patch I'd sent back in the
> day that (I thought) was going to get into the next release, but I'd
> never had a chance to follow up on it.
>
> (What I think is) the original thread is here:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2003-01/msg00005.php
>
> ...my patch isn't at the link given anymore, but the latest version of
> it is here:
>
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/crypto/finkinfo/postgresql-ssl.patch?rev=HEAD
>
> The current behavior *is* broken; things work only because everything
> ends up linking statically against the .a's, and the bundles are
> basically dead weight.

OK, that's all I need to hear. I will make the changes for 7.5.

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