[postgis-devel] statically linked liblwgeom, why ?

[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 09:45:49PM +0100, Raúl Marín Rodríguez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > 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.
> 
> That was already happening, except for the bugs that appeared every once in
> a while in different places.
> 
> What I was trying to say is that if you don't install the library (the .so)
> it doesn't make any sense to link to it dynamically since it won't be there
> when you need it to run your programs.
> 
> I believe there was a thread around this recently (a month ago) but I don't
> remember the specifics (and I'm not in my computer). Maybe some wanted only
> the headers gone while others understood that both the library and the
> headers wouldn't be installed anymore.

I think I voted for that one, and the vote was for just getting rid
of the header, not of the library...

--strk;