[postgis-devel] liblwgeom.so

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 08/09/11 10:09, Sandro Santilli wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Paragon Corporation<lr at pcorp.us>  wrote:
>> That's strange.  My builds of those don't show any extra dependencies
>> or am I special because I'm on windows.  Still seems static to me.
>>
>> I just have a libpq dependency for pgsql2shp and for the gui all the gtk
>> dependencies.
>>
>> For shp2pgsql just libiconv-2
>
> You may have missed the most recent commit introducing dynamic linking
> for loader/dumper. It saves some space and opens up for more utilities using
> them (I'm thinking of wkt2wkb and wkb2wkt, for example) without copying the
> core library over and over.
>
> We could get back to statically linked utilities, but why would we ?

Yeah - I don't see a problem with having a dynamic library for this as 
it saves memory and opens up for people to develop other useful 
utilities around PostGIS. If we are linking one library statically and 
another dynamically then that is a bug - it either needs to be one or 
the other.

>> I am though very frustrated about not being able to build for 8.4 anymore
>> and also what seems to be a sudden slowness since all these changes.
>
> That issue seems related to libpgcommon to me.

Generally it is the responsibility of the committer to ensure that any 
patches applied do not break the build for other people. Given that 
Win32 is a supported platform then it is your responsibility to work 
with Regina in order to make sure that the build under 8.4 is fixed.


ATB,

Mark.

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