Re: Relocatable installs

Jan Wieck wrote:

>
> If I remore the whole -rpath thing, and remove the two -L options and 
> the -lpq and -lpgport, and add the libpq.a and libpgport.a explicitly 
> to the linker call, the psql executable on my Linux box grows from 
> 421761 to 677682 bytes in size. It is still shared linked against 
> libc, libz, libreadline and a bunch of otheres, but all of them are in 
> /lib or /usr/lib, so they are standard or system libraries. It does 
> not depend on a libpq.so any more, and that is what we want.
>

One of the reasons I originally suggested an explicit 'relocatable' 
config option was worry about the rpath thing. Maybe I should have 
raised red flags a bit more ;-)

Static linking against libpq would have considerable advantages for the 
Windows port (see recent discussion regarding library search paths on 
W32 on the w32-hackers list).

cheers

andrew