Re: Clean up MinGW def file generation

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Subject: Re: Clean up MinGW def file generation
Date: 2019-10-20 22:07:02
Message-ID: 87d95052-3780-b833-9953-27eab80186cf@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2019-10-20 10:26, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2019-10-18 15:00, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, the comment that Peter complained about is mine. I believe the
>> desire to avoid depending on "sed" at build time was focused on our
>> old support for building libpq with Borland C (and not much else).
>> Since this makefile infrastructure is now only used for MinGW, I agree
>> we ought to be able to quit shipping those files in tarballs.
>
> Yeah, it all makes sense now. I have committed my patch now.

Very related, I believe the file libpq-dist.rc is also obsolete; see
attached patch.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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0001-Remove-libpq-dist.rc.patch text/plain 1.6 KB

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