Re: libpgport.a ?

[Sebastian E. Ovide]

Thanks for that...

I'll check with the MapServer mailing list...

The reason why I am building mapserver is because I need the Oracle drivers
in gdal...

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Mamoru Tasaka <[e-mail]
> wrote:
> For some (reasonable) reason, usually Fedora strongly discourages to ship
> static archives in binary rpms:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Librari...
> You can see this also happened on postgresql:
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a6a1e9...
>
> You should really check if libpgport.a is really needed, i.e.
> check it the package you are trying to build supports dynamic
> linkage (against libpgport.so).