Re: postgres.h

From: Jason Tishler <jason(at)tishler(dot)net>
To: Frank Seesink <frank(at)mail(dot)wvnet(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgres.h
Date: 2003-11-05 16:10:36
Message-ID: 20031105161036.GE1792@tishler.net
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Frank,

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:12:52PM -0500, Frank Seesink wrote:
> Basically it involves building an EXPORT list via 'nm' and then
> building the libary using 'dllwrap'.

Please recommend using "gcc -shared" instead of "dllwrap".

> Finally, fork(). Cygwin is fork()ing hell (pun intended) compared to
> a proper *nix environment. Applications which use fork() either
> directly or indirectly--as Jabberd does since it uses GNU Pth, which
> in turn uses fork()--often have difficulty under Cygwin. As mentioned
> above, when attempting to run a version of Jabberd compiled against
> minires (basically attempting to build Jabberd under Cygwin as you
> would do under *nix), I ran into trouble. The trouble involved
> fork(). I do not have a resolution at this time.

<WAG>
Try rebasing your system:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2003-09/msg00039.html
</WAG>

Jason

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