Re: pgsql: Use --disable-auto-import linker switch in Mingw builds, too.

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Use --disable-auto-import linker switch in Mingw builds, too.
Date: 2014-02-15 01:18:50
Message-ID: 20140215011850.GD11943@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-02-14 19:44:11 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 02/12/2014 12:04 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >Use --disable-auto-import linker switch in Mingw builds, too.
> >
> >This is evidently the default on buildfarm member narwhal, but that
> >is a pretty ancient Mingw version, and there is reason to think that
> >more recent versions of GNU ld have this feature turned on by default.
> >Since we are trying to achieve consistency of link behavior across
> >all Windows toolchains, let's just make sure here.
>
>
> This appears to have broken configure on jacana (probably the most modern
> Mingw animal we have).

According to a quick search that's caused by a bug in mingw...

http://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/bugs/2020/ and some others.

Any chance you could update to a slighly newer version?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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