Florian G. Pflug wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> Florian G. Pflug wrote:
>>> I'm currently thinking that unconditionally adding the output
>>> of pg_config --libs to LIBS if linking statically might
>>> be a better approach - thoughts?
>>
>> That whole section of the file seems a bit kooky to me - it does some
>> weird stuff on Solaris as well.
>>
>> pg_config --libs does output more than we need for libpq though, so I'm
>> a little loathe to use it - what about just conditionally adding the
>> -lssl, if you can grep it form the pg_config output?
>
> Yeah - realized that too, seconds after I mailed..
> The problem with grepping for -lssl is that AFAIK some
> plattforms need more than -lssl (Like -lcrypto). So
> if we're going that way, we won't get rid of all that
> plattform-specific uglyness in that section.
>
> Maybe removing those libs from the output of pg_config that
> we surely don't need or want (like -lpgport) is workable
> alternative?
Yeah, that sounds reasonable.
Regards, Dave