Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
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 16:26:56
Message-ID: 26454.1392222416@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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?

regards, tom lane

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