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On 1/30/2013 5:46 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >>> Autoconf+Automake will be a much cleaner approach, and will >>> allow to avoid at all the platform checks. >> Yes, I had the same impression but it is unfortunately not realistic. >> I worked against dllwrap removal but got stuck somewhere. >> When I find my old patches I'll hand it over to you. Just came back >> from holidays. > > I will be very happy to work with you to remove the use of dllwrap etc. > for cygwin. Since I'm a Postgres committer (and the only one interested > in Cygwin at all) I'm in a good position to do this. I believe the > Postgres project had problems in the past with automake and made a > decision long ago not to use it, so we're not going down that route. > However, that surely need not stop us from getting this working. > > cheers > > andrew > Hi Andrew, I see most of the other platforms are using "gcc --shared" instead of dllwrap. I suspect that just switching away from dllwrap will improve the situation. Postgresql is the only package, where I was forced to remove debug information to have a running binary. I will very happy to work on this change Marco (current maintainer of Postgresql package) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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