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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:00:42 -0500
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
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To: Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>
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Subject: Re: Binutils objcopy bug (was Re: rebase segfault)
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On 01/30/2013 11:46 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 01/29/2013 05:30 PM, Reini Urban wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 1:52 AM, marco atzeri  wrote:
>>> On 1/26/2013 7:32 AM, Reini Urban wrote:
>>>>> rebase is not to blame. I agree ;-)
>>>>> Someone else is incorrectly managing the reloc table,
>>>>> and also objcopy seems innocent ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Postgresql dll's are built in this way:
>>>>
>>>> My strong guess is dllwrap.
>>>> No other packages uses the ancient dllwrap anymore.
>>>> I tried to get rid of it, but got stuck somewhere else.
>>>>
>>> Hi Reini,
>>> I agree dllwrap seems the coolprit, and "gcc -shared"
>>> seems a better alternative, at least on a single test with this dll.
>>>
>>> I looked on the postgresql makefiles and it is a big mess to
>>> replace dllwrap; upstream is crazy, they crippled configure
>>> forcing a specific version and refusing to use Automake.
>>>
>>> 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.
>
>


I have not heard a word on this in the 5 weeks or so since it was sent. 
Are you guys interested in fixing this or not?

cheers

andrew

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