[syslog-ng] linking changes

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 23 15:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 23 14:52, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> > hmm.. not even with -fPIC ? If I have to duplicate executable code into
> > pdbtool anyway (because of static linking it), I'd rather not have a
> > separate .so which is only loaded by an .so.
> 
> -fPIC and -fpic have no effect on Windows.  The Windows loader doesn't
> support position independent code.  So, no, it won't work either.
> [...]
> No worries.  However, something else occured to me a couple of minutes
> ago.  If you apply my patch, you must change
> 
>   noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libsyslog-ng-patterndb.la
> 
> to
> 
>   lib_LTLIBRARIES = libsyslog-ng-patterndb.la
> 
> If you keep it in noinst_LTLIBRARIES, the libdbparse.so module will be
> broken after installtion because it requires libsyslog-ng-patterndb.so
> to run.  Sorry for forgetting that.

...and I'm even more sorry that we have to suffer so much from the
restrictions of the underlying Windows system. :-|


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat