[postgis-devel] Loader build under postgresql 8.1.3 fails. Patch for configure.in to solve the issue.

[strk at refractions.net]

Granted, I never felt comfortable with that.
Committed. --strk;

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:09:32AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
>   The loader build is fine without the additional --libs.  Indeed,
>   adding the extra libs can cause serious problems if, for example, the
>   .so's the server is compiled with is different from the .so's the
>   PostGIS module is compiled with.  This results in two different
>   versions of the same library being linked into the running PostgreSQL
>   process with conflicting symbols.  This can cause PostgreSQL to crash.
> 
>   For the actual loader, they don't need the extra .so's to even be
>   available to compile normally, just libpq (shp2pgsql doesn't even need
>   that, actually!).
> 
>   Please revert the configure.in patch.
> 
>   	Thanks!
> 
> 		Stephen