Howdy, Heikki asked me to look at the renames of the static Meson targets. I don't understand the reasoning for the changes. I am completely unfamiliar with AIX, so maybe it's obvious. Does Meson produce a static library and a shared library with the same file extension? If so, why is that? That's the only reason I can think of for making those changes. Is it AIX-specific or whatever OS you are testing on?
In your patch, I found a link to https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/52ef20b2e3209443bc37736d00c3c1380a6e7...@exadv1.host.magwien.gv.at. > -> On AIX, you can do a static as well as a dynamic > -> link against a shared library, it depends on how you > -> invoke the linker. > > When you link statically, the shared objects from > the library are added to your executable as required; > when you link dynamically, only references > to the shared objects are included in the executable. > > Consequently you do not need a separate static library > on AIX if you have a dynamic library. This seems to imply that we don't need a static library at all on AIX. However this email is also nearing 20 years old :D. Could we get away without the renames on the Meson targets by just not defining the static library targets? -- Tristan Partin Databricks (https://databricks.com)
