On Mar 22, 2015, at 10:54 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We're entirely at the mercy of the platform's dynamic loader when it comes > to things like this. I don't think I trust Darwin's loader with relative > paths; though come to think of it, Linux's loader may be no better. Way > too many opportunities to screw up there. It actually does work, I've used it. But I never found any documentation about it, and it was a damned PITA to figure out. > As for static libraries, there are good reasons why those aren't superior > solutions. Red Hat for instance has a blanket policy against shipping > static libraries (with only very narrow exceptions), and I believe the > same is true of many other vendors. Yep. Good & bad both ways. Anyway, I clearly need to not nest specific version builds with the dbs that use that version. I need to build all versions into /usr/local/pgsql-XYZ and then symlink as needed. -- Scott Ribe scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.elevated-dev.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottribe/ (303) 722-0567 voice -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
