[syslog-ng] linking changes

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  2 12:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar  2 10:47, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> > well, something along the lines of
> > 
> > --enable-static --disable-shared
> > 
> > and some libtool magic to get all .a files linked into the syslog-ng
> > binary with -Wl,--whole-archive
> > 
> > This doesn't need PIC compilation (as the .a files will be linked into
> > the main executable) and can be done even for embedded libraries.
> > 
> > plugin loading would work on platforms where the .so files can use
> > symbols from the executable:
> >   * this is the case on Linux
> >   * this is definitely not the case on AIX
> >   * on cygwin, if my guess is right, this will not work, so there all
> > syslog-ng plugins must be linked in statically too.
> > 
> > The alternative is to introduce ivykis as a separate package on cygwin.
> > Would that be a doable alternative?
> 
> We only allow packages in the distro for which we have a an active
> maintainer.  If you're willing to package and maintain ivykis for
> Cygwin, or if you have somebody who's willing to do so, then that
> would be a doable solution, yes.
> 
> I gave ivykis a quick whirl, but it doesn't build on Cygwin because
> Cygwin has no support for pthread_spinlocks so far.

Unfortunately ivykis uses pthread_spinlocks unconditionally, even though
they are marked as optional in POSIX-1.2004 and only moved to the Base
in POSIX-1.2008.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat