X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_SPAMHAUS_DROP,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_BJ,TW_JC X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Received: by 10.224.183.197 with SMTP id ch5mr5872126qab.27.1359565382869; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:03:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <51095241.5050400@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:02:57 +0100 From: marco atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Binutils objcopy bug (was Re: rebase segfault) References: <50F5D246.6010902@gmail.com> <50F653AB.80102@gmail.com> <20130116123509.GA16991@calimero.vinschen.de> <50F6AD63.8080106@gmail.com> <20130124030145.22fa143f@YAAKOV04> <20130124092746.GC8311@calimero.vinschen.de> <510103AF.3080305@gmail.com> <20130124100037.GB24121@calimero.vinschen.de> <51027B9E.3080104@gmail.com> <20130125150006.GC26731@calimero.vinschen.de> <5102A09A.7040506@gmail.com> <51038B4F.1090903@gmail.com> <51094E62.30000@dunslane.net> In-Reply-To: <51094E62.30000@dunslane.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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