Re: [Firebird-devel] building Firebird 2.0 on POSIX system without Firebird installed

[Alex P. <pe...@in...>]

Michal Kubecek wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:38:38PM -0200, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
> 
>>Alex Peshkov wrote:
>>
>>>And what's bad with this dependency? libfbclient.so is always present 
>>>in installation. I don't catch what problem do you want to solve.
>>
>>The embedded is also a client, but don't need to be named fbclient.dll.
> 
> 
> For embedded, fbudf.so is built from another makefile so that it is
> linked against -lfbembed. But I can see it linked only in win32 case:
> 
> $(UDF)/fbudf.$(SHRLIB_EXT):     $(FBUDF_Objects) $(FBUTIL_Objects)
> ifeq ($(PLATFORM),win32)
>         $(LIB_LINK) $(LIB_LINK_OPTIONS) $(LIB_LINK_SONAME)fbudf.$(SHRLIB_EXT) -L$(LIB) -lfbembed -o $@ $^
> else
>         $(LIB_LINK) $(LIB_LINK_OPTIONS) $(LIB_LINK_SONAME)fbudf.$(SHRLIB_EXT) $(LIB_LINK_RPATH)$(FirebirdInstallPrefix)/lib -o $@ $^
> endif
> 
> Is it correct? BTW, are these makefiles (generated from templates in
> builds/posix/Makefile.in.*.fbudf) used on win32 platform?
> 

Certainly, that's in general wrong, but practically OK. It's possible to 
have unresolved references in .so - is seems that ld hopes, that they 
will be resolved in some other libraries, already loaded when this 
particular is going to load. This is exactly our case - libfbembed is 
already loaded, because in classic case this is it who loads any UDF. 
And as long as this works fine, I prefer don't touch makefiles.

What about win32 platform and posix build - it's used in MinGW build.