Steve, Are you talking about PIC requirements, when you say " HP-UX doesn't support building shared libaries that depend on archive libraries".
In MySQL 5.5, linking static to shared feature was used extensively (as a replacement for libtool's "convenience libraries", static library was compiled with platform dependent PIC flag), and it worked on all major Unixes, I'm pretty sure it worked on HPUX/Itanium. I think the trick for Maria 5.3 could be to compile the sqlservices library with the PIC flag (+Z or +z or something similar, if I recall this correctly). I do not have access to HPUX machines anymore, but you might want to give it a try. > -----Original Message----- > From: maria-developers- > bounces+wlad=montyprogram....@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:maria- > developers-bounces+wlad=montyprogram....@lists.launchpad.net] On > Behalf Of Steve Ellcey > Sent: Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 23:12 > To: maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: [Maria-developers] Shared plugin library build question > > I am looking at a difference in the HP-UX vs. Linux mariadb build and > was wondering if someone could help me understand why something is set > up the way it is. > > The problem I see is that on HP-UX, when I do a mariadb build I do not > get shared plugin libraries like ha_federated. Looking into why this > was happening I found that when the plugin libraries like ha_federated > are built they have a dependency on libsqlservices and libsqlservices > is built only as an archive library. HP-UX doesn't support building > shared libaries that depend on archive libraries and so the build of the > shared plugin libraries fails when no shared version of libsqlservices > is found. > > So my main question is: why is libsqlservices built only as an archive > library? The other question is: if libsqlservices has to be an archive > only library, is there is another way to link it in to executables, such > as linking it in explicitly when building an executable instead of > counting on the shared plugin libraries to bring it in indirectly by > making it a dependent library? > > Steve Ellcey > s...@cup.hp.com > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers > Post to : maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
