Change to DSO-linking semantics of the compiler

Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com
Tue Jan 12 00:57:51 UTC 2010


Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> writes:
> I also think that this change will probably force us to ship .la files. The 
> only reason we didn't need them so far was that implicit linking feature.

[ scratches head... ]  How so?  AFAICS the only change here is that
programs now have to explicitly list all the libraries that *they*
depend on, instead of being sloppy.

			regards, tom lane


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