probably needless linking against readline and ncurses
This is a discussion on probably needless linking against readline and ncurses within the pgsql Hackers forums, part of the PostgreSQL category; --> Hi, it appears all of PostgreSQL's binaries are linked against libreadline and libncurses, but the only one that really ...
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 probably needless linking against readline and ncurses Hi, it appears all of PostgreSQL's binaries are linked against libreadline and libncurses, but the only one that really needs them seems to be psql. Is there a reason behind this other than that it might be easier to have only one set of linker switches that can be used for everything? cu Reinhard ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org      |
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| Re: probably needless linking against readline and ncurses On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 02:46:09PM +0200, Reinhard Max wrote: > it appears all of PostgreSQL's binaries are linked against libreadline and > libncurses, but the only one that really needs them seems to be psql. > > Is there a reason behind this other than that it might be easier to have > only one set of linker switches that can be used for everything? No. In fact somebody came up with a patch to solve that and it was rejected because of maintenability (or portability) issues. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>) FOO MANE PADME HUM ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org) |
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| Re: probably needless linking against readline and ncurses Reinhard Max <Reinhard@m4x.de> writes: > it appears all of PostgreSQL's binaries are linked against libreadline and > libncurses, but the only one that really needs them seems to be psql. > Is there a reason behind this other than that it might be easier to have > only one set of linker switches that can be used for everything? Exactly. Autoconf isn't really very helpful about generating multiple sets of library lists within one package, and it's never been worth the trouble to deal with that. On some platforms there's a linker switch that can be used to prevent useless libraries from being bound to the executable. We probably ought to use that where available. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org |
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