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Date:      Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:58:41 -0500
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Palle Girgensohn <girgen@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/databases/postgresql73-server Makefile ports/databases/postgresql74-server Makefile ports/databases/postgresql80-server Makefile ports/databases/postgresql81-server Makefile
Message-ID:  <20051115005841.GB39183@green.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <200511142359.jAENxQfk062709@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200511142359.jAENxQfk062709@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:59:26PM +0000, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> girgen      2005-11-14 23:59:26 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD ports repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     databases/postgresql73-server Makefile 
>     databases/postgresql74-server Makefile 
>     databases/postgresql80-server Makefile 
>     databases/postgresql81-server Makefile 
>   Log:
>   Let postgresql (libpq.so) only link with the Kerberos implementations
>   installed from ports. The base heimdal distribution installs libraries
>   that have no depenency information. While this is quite correct, it
>   means that each library that links with libpq.so must also know if
>   libpq.so is linked with libkrb.so et al. Problem is, there's no good
>   way to get this information (pg_config has a --libs option starting at
>   version 8.1) and all ports using postgresql must be changed to make it
>   possible to link with a libpq.so that was configured to use the
>   Kerberos implementation installed in /usr by default. Hence, we
>   require one of the ports (heimdal or krb5) if postgresql is to be
>   linked with Kerberos. At least for now, until we can fix this in some
>   better way.

That's silly!  We already know what the libraries are when we're
building the port, so there's no reason they can't be linked to
libpq.so explicitly from the PostgreSQL-client port build, is there?

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