libpgport.a ?

Mamoru Tasaka mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Thu Nov 18 10:02:48 UTC 2010


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_Libraries
You can see this also happened on postgresql:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a6a1e9bfab6192bbdaea41e88368ae7d242316d7

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


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