no evidence that any currently-supported platform needs this, and good
reason to think that any platform that did need it couldn't use the static
libraries anyway --- libpq, at least, has circular references. Removing
the code shuts up tsort warnings about the circular references on some
platforms.
in terms of macro 'rpathdir', as I proposed a few weeks ago. In itself
this commit shouldn't change the behavior at all, but it opens the door
to using special rpaths for the PL shared libraries, as seems to be
needed for plperl in particular.
$(LD) -x -Bshareable to $(CC) -shared on OpenBSD (I suspect this
should be carried over to the other two as well, but will refrain
pending suggestions from people who actually use those platforms).
Per Stefan Kaltenbrunner.
system. Some systems did not understand the 'l' section, and in general
it wasn't entirely appropriate.
On SCO OpenServer, the man pages won't be installed at all until someone
figures out their man system.
path into executables and shared libraries (-rpath or -R for most). Can be
disabled with --disable-rpath, since some binary packaging standards do not
like this option.
Makefile.port, since they are of no use to configure and much of the
library magic happens in Makefile.port anyway.
Use __alpha, not __alpha__, since the former is universally available.
Remove -DNOFIXADE from the compile command line and put it in the port
include file.