libpgport.a ?

[Sebastian E. Ovide]

Hi All,

I'm building mapserver and it requires [B]libpgport.a[/B] that in other
distributions is part of [B]libpq-dev[/B] but I cannot find it with YUM...

any ideas

thanks

[Ed Greshko]

> I'm building mapserver and it requires [B]libpgport.a[/B] that in
> other distributions is part of [B]libpq-dev[/B] but I cannot find it
> with YUM...
>
> any ideas

have you tried....

yum whatprovides */lib/libpgport.a

???

[Sebastian E. Ovide]

[gis@mapserver-fc14 ~]$ yum whatprovides */lib/libpgport.a
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Adding en_US to language list
updates/metalink
                                                              |  13 kB
00:00
updates
                                                               | 4.7 kB
00:00
updates/primary_db
                                                              | 1.4 MB
00:02
updates/filelists_db
                                                              | 3.2 MB
00:03
No Matches found

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Ed Greshko  wrote:
> > I'm building mapserver and it requires [B]libpgport.a[/B] that in
> > other distributions is part of [B]libpq-dev[/B] but I cannot find it
> > with YUM...
> >
> > any ideas
>
> have you tried....
>
> yum whatprovides */lib/libpgport.a
>
> ???
>
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[Ed Greshko]

On 11/18/2010 05:16 PM, Sebastian E. Ovide wrote:
> [gis@mapserver-fc14 ~]$ yum whatprovides */lib/libpgport.a
> Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
> Adding en_US to language list
> updates/metalink                                                      
>                                                                     |
>  13 kB     00:00
> updates                                                              
>                                                                      |
> 4.7 kB     00:00
> updates/primary_db                                                    
>                                                                     |
> 1.4 MB     00:02
> updates/filelists_db                                                  
>                                                                     |
> 3.2 MB     00:03
> No Matches found

Interesting...  In F11 it was in postgresql-devel.

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Sebastian E. Ovide wrote, at 11/18/2010 06:02 PM +9:00:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm building mapserver and it requires [B]libpgport.a[/B] that in other distributions
> is part of [B]libpq-dev[/B] but I cannot find it with YUM...
>
> any ideas
>
> thanks

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).

By the way, mapserver is in Fedora:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/mapserver
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=4354

Regards,
Mamoru

[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).