| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Inoue, Hiroshi" <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT |
| Date: | 2014-02-12 16:32:14 |
| Message-ID: | 20140212163214.GI3162@alap3.anarazel.de |
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On 2014-02-12 11:26:56 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 2014-02-12 10:58:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Anybody know *exactly* what --enable-auto-import does? The name
> >> is, um, suggestive.
>
> > My ld(1)'s manpage has three screen's worth of details... Most of it
> > seems to be on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ld&sektion=1
>
> > It's essentially elf like shared library linking in pe-coff through
> > dirty tricks.
>
> Hm. So if we're giving up on the idea of ever getting rid of PGDLLIMPORT,
> we ought to actually remove that, so that the Cygwin build works more like
> the other Windows builds?
Hm, I don't see a big advantage in detecting the errors as It won't
hugely increase the buildfarm coverage. But --auto-import seems to
require marking the .text sections as writable, avoiding that seems to
be a good idea if we don't need it anymore.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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