Re: Reduce the number of special cases to build contrib modules on windows

On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 04:01, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> The patch does not apply on Head anymore, could you rebase and post a
> patch. I'm changing the status to "Waiting for Author".

I've rebased this patch and broken it down into 6 individual patches.

0001: Removes an include directory for dblink. This appears like it's
not needed. It was added in ee3b4188a (Jan 2010), but an earlier
commit, 320c7eb8c (June 2008) seems to have made it pointless. It's
still a mystery to me why ee3b4188a would have been required in the
first place.

0002: Parses -D in the CPPFLAGS of Makefiles and uses those in the
MSVC script. It also adjusts the ltree contrib module so that we do
the same LOWER_NODE behaviour as we did before. The MSVC scripts
appear to have mistakenly forgotten to define LOWER_NODE as it is in
the Makefiles.

0003: Is a tidy up patch to make the 'includes' field an array rather
than a string

0004: Adds code to check for duplicate references and libraries before
adding new ones of the same name to the project.

0005: Is mostly a tidy up so that we use AddFile consistently instead
of sometimes doing $self->{files}->{<name>} = 1;

0006: I'm not so sure about. It attempts to do a bit more Makefile
parsing to get rid of contrib_extrasource and the majority of
contrib_uselibpgport and contrib_uselibpgcommon usages.

David