<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">From the Fedora mailing list:</span></div>

<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div>For some (reasonable) reason, usually Fedora strongly discourages to ship<br>static archives in binary rpms:<br>

<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries</a><br>

You can see this also happened on postgresql:<br><a href="http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a6a1e9bfab6192bbdaea41e88368ae7d242316d7" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a6a1e9bfab6192bbdaea41e88368ae7d242316d7</a><br>

<br>You should really check if libpgport.a is really needed, i.e.<br>check it the package you are trying to build supports dynamic<br>linkage (against libpgport.so).</span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Julien Cigar <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jcigar@ulb.ac.be">jcigar@ulb.ac.be</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On 11/18/2010 10:35, Sebastian E. Ovide wrote:<br>
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from<br>
<a href="http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1417824#post1417824" target="_blank">http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1417824#post1417824</a> it<br>
looks like libpgport isn&#39;t supported by fedora...<br>
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Is there any other way to build MapServer without that library ?<br>
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disable Postgis support ?<br>
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I don&#39;t use Fedora, but I reported a similar problem with the FreeBSD port, which looks like yours: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=145002" target="_blank">http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=145002</a><br>


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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Sebastian E. Ovide<br></div><div class="im">
&lt;<a href="mailto:sebastian.ovide@gmail.com" target="_blank">sebastian.ovide@gmail.com</a> &lt;mailto:<a href="mailto:sebastian.ovide@gmail.com" target="_blank">sebastian.ovide@gmail.com</a>&gt;&gt; wrote:<br>
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    Hi Guys,<br>
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    I&#39;m building mapserver in Fedora 14 and getting<br>
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    /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpgport<br>
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status<br>
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    doing<br>
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    yum list | grep pgport<br>
    and<br>
    yum provides &quot;*pgport*&quot;<br>
<br>
    I cannot see any package with pgport...<br>
<br>
    any ideas ?<br>
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    --<br>
    Sebastian E. Ovide<br>
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--<br>
Sebastian E. Ovide<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sebastian E. Ovide<br><br><br><br>