Re: --disable-shared is entirely broken these days

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 05:01:39PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 04:57:30PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 04:50:22PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> No documentation changes?
> > 
> > > I couldn't find any place we document it.  I did:
> > >     grep _shared *.sgml
> > > and no hits were returned.  Should I search for something else?
> > 
> > It's --enable-shared, not --enable_shared.  I see at least one hit, in
> > installation.sgml.
> 
> Oh, got -/_ mixed up. Fixed with attached applied patch.

Oops, that text is talking about Python's configure, so I put the text
back.  Seemed we had _no_ mention of our own --enable-shared.

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> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
> new file mode 100644
> index c02ed87..81cd550
> *** a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
> --- b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
> *************** su - postgres
> *** 234,241 ****
>        </para>
>   
>        <para>
> !       If you have problems, run <productname>Python</> 2.3 or later's
> !       configure using the <literal>--enable-shared</> flag.  On some
>         operating systems you don't have to build a shared library, but
>         you will have to convince the <productname>PostgreSQL</> build
>         system of this.  Consult the <filename>Makefile</filename> in
> --- 234,240 ----
>        </para>
>   
>        <para>
> !       On some
>         operating systems you don't have to build a shared library, but
>         you will have to convince the <productname>PostgreSQL</> build
>         system of this.  Consult the <filename>Makefile</filename> in

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