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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:37:23 -0400
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
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Subject: Re: initdb failure - postgres hangs with 100% CPU
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Jason Tishler wrote:


> pq.dll is the "shared" (i.e., DLL) library, libpq.a is the import
> library to which client code link.


Jason, I recommend that postgres build the import library with a 
".dll.a" extention, rather than ".a".  This requires no changes when 
linking client code; ld will interpret "-lpq" to mean "libpq.dll.a" 
FIRST, and then later look for "libpq.a" iff .dll.a is not found.

What you're doing now is fine; it works now and will continue to work -- 
but convention sez ".a" = static lib, ".dll.a" = import lib.  (yah, I 
know that the mswindows import libs in the cygwin and mingw packages use 
".a" ....)

--Chuck


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