Re: Cygwin - make check broken

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Marko Kreen <marko(at)l-t(dot)ee>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Rocco Altier <RoccoA(at)Routescape(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin - make check broken
Date: 2005-08-07 18:27:41
Message-ID: 42F6529D.2050100@dunslane.net
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Marko Kreen wrote:

>On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 12:08:28PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>Couple thoughts here --- one, someone upthread suggested
>>"cyg$(NAME)$(DLSUFFIX" as the proper value for shlib. I didn't
>>see why at first, but now it occurs to me that it might avoid name
>>collisions with Windows-native builds, which use the "lib" prefix.
>>I'm not sure if DLLs for Cygwin and native builds would ever go
>>into the same directory though. Is this worth worrying about?
>>
>>
>
>.exe's in different directories than .dll's but all in PATH.
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Especially DLLs in the system directory. Anyway, I see no point *not* to
observe the platform's convention.

I just tested it and make check worked fine.

cheers

andrew

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