Re: [BUGS] BUG #5351: compiling with --disable-shared is broken (patch included)

2010-03-02 Thread Craig Ringer
Jonas Lund wrote: >> Hmm ... out of curiosity, what exactly is your motivation for doing >> that? The reason we don't test this anymore is that so much of >> Postgres' functionality is bound up in loadable modules that a build >> without them seems of little use. It wouldn't even come close to >>

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5351: compiling with --disable-shared is broken (patch included)

2010-03-02 Thread Jonas Lund
> Hmm ... out of curiosity, what exactly is your motivation for doing > that?  The reason we don't test this anymore is that so much of > Postgres' functionality is bound up in loadable modules that a build > without them seems of little use.  It wouldn't even come close to > passing the regression

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5351: compiling with --disable-shared is broken (patch included)

2010-03-02 Thread Tom Lane
Jonas Lund writes: > What kind of functionality is tied to shared libs ? Procedural languages, encoding conversions, walreceiver (in 9.0), not to mention any sort of add-on such as contrib or pgfoundry modules. > If building without shared libs isn't supported anymore then i think > you should d

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5351: compiling with --disable-shared is broken (patch included)

2010-02-28 Thread Tom Lane
"Jonas Lund" writes: > I'm compiling with "--disable-shared" on 8.4.2 (worked with 8.3.1) and it > fails with: Hmm ... out of curiosity, what exactly is your motivation for doing that? The reason we don't test this anymore is that so much of Postgres' functionality is bound up in loadable module

[BUGS] BUG #5351: compiling with --disable-shared is broken (patch included)

2010-02-28 Thread Jonas Lund
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5351 Logged by: Jonas Lund Email address: whizz...@gmail.com PostgreSQL version: 8.4.2 (+others) Operating system: FreeBSD (generic problem) Description:compiling with --disable-shared is broken (patch included)