[mapserver-users] Mapserver compilation on SLES 11 fails ...

[Daniel Morissette]

I don't know if we use the stuff from the pgport lib, probably not, but 
we use the output of "pg_config --libs" to figure the required 
dependencies to link with postgresql. This is the correct way to do 
things AFAIK.

My take is that if the SuSe maintainers want to remove libpgport.a from 
the -devel package, then they should also edit the pg_config script to 
not list it.

Daniel

Michael Schulz wrote:
> Dear Mapservers,
> 
> currently a source compilation of a recent mapserver will fail on SuSE
> Enterprise 11 with the following error:
> ld: cannot find -lpgport
> 
> It seems that with SLES11 this library has been removed from the
> repositories. After removing the linker flag from the makefiles the
> compilation is successful. I'm just wondering if this library is
> really needed or if we will be facing problems in the future? It seems
> Slony also had this problem, and now the library has been readded to
> the repos - but only for OpenSuse (see [1]). Hmpf.
> 
> Can someone comment on this, whether the lib is really needed?
> 
> Cheers, Michael
> 
> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/slony1-general@lists.slony.info/msg03318.html
> 


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