Re: [Firebird-devel] Building Firebird Linux with --with-builtin-tommath

[Alex P. <pes...@ma...>]

On 9/15/22 16:38, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
> On 15-09-2022 15:19, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
>> On 9/15/22 14:36, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
>>> On 15/09/2022 08:18, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
>>>> This is solved by install script - it creates symlink to
>>> /inst/path/firebird/lib/.tm/libtommath.so.0 in system lib directory
>>> (provided it's missing).
>>
>> If we decide to _always_ provide own dynamic libraries (logically 
>> it's like using static one but does not require duplicating code) 
>> this trick becomes not needed any more.
>
> Let me remind you that this thread started with me noticing an 
> inconsistency in how we build things when explicitly building with 
> --with-builtin-tommath compared to the - in my opinion - more sane 
> behaviour of --with-builtin-tomcrypt (putting things in 
> gen/buildroot/usr/local/firebird/lib/.tm vs in 
> gen/buildroot/usr/local/firebird/lib).
>
> I was not asking about always using our own libraries, but at least 
> doing things in a sane way when a build is performed explicitly 
> requesting to use our own version of libraries.
>

We need another switch for requested behavior.