On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:07:04AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Samstag, 3. November 2007 schrieb Tom Lane: > > > That also seems to have the positive effect of getting libpq.so to find > > > the shared objects that it depends on. So is the fact that I need to > > > edit src/Makefile.global after I run configure mean that I found a bug? > > > ;-) > > > > Seems more like a feature request: there should be a way to override > > rpathdir from a configure switch. We already have an enable-rpath > > switch, but it's just a boolean. Maybe allow > > configure --enable-rpath=PATH > > ? > > Well, the rpath option affects the rpath to our own libraries. To find the > system libraries, the environment variable LD_RUN_PATH can be used. > Otherwise you'd have to convince every software product in existence to add > the appropriate configuration options. > > -- > Peter Eisentraut > http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ > We use LD_RUN_PATH in our Solaris builds for that reason. Ken ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
