Re: Bumping libpq version number?

Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:29:46PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > 
> > > Does initdb call pg_snprintf directly?  Or does it call some
> > > libpq function that calls it?
> > 
> > With the current CVS, initdb calls pg_snprintf() on my platform which
> > doesn't support %$ natively on my libc printf.  Now, initdb could pull
> > from pgport itself but I think it pulled from libpq first.  Perhaps we
> > should reorder how those libraries appear in the link line but I think
> > that would fix just this case, not the more general one of pg client
> > apps.
> 
> Do "client apps" ever link to pgport itself?  I assume only
> "internal" applictions link to it?

They do.

> I assume libpq is staticly linked to pgport and is exporting
> symbols it shouldn't.  Can we prevent it from exporting those
> symbols?

I can think of no way to prevent it, except on Win32 that has an exports
file.

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