[postgis-devel] statically linked liblwgeom, why ?

[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 08:45:54PM +0100, Raúl Marín Rodríguez wrote:
> > What's the rationale for such change ?
> 
> Well, the very moment we dedided to stop installing liblwgeom headers and
> the library itself, linking everything statically was the only way to go.

This isn't true. We control the build scripts so we can find the
liblwgeom header from the source tree, as it was always meant to
happen.

> I'm curious (keep in mind that I a haven't been here for that long), do we
> require a vote from the steering comitee for such change?
> A similar change was done way back (1.4!) when postgis.so started linking
> it statically. Why would making all binaries/objects follow the same rule
> require a vote (unless someone calls for it)?

There isn't a strict rule, but I didn't even see a proposal passing
on the mailing list.

--strk;