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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:48:22 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
To: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Cc: Steve Jorgensen <jorgens AT coho DOT net>,
        "cygwin AT cygwin. Com (E-mail)" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: initdb failure - postgres hangs with 100% CPU
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Chuck,

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:37:23PM -0400, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
> 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" ....)

Unfortunately, your proposed change would affect PostgreSQL's global
Makefile.shlib makefile which in turn would "affect" the building of
shared libraries on all of the umpteen supported platforms.  Sorry, but I
don't really want to go there since I assume it will be an uphill battle.
Besides, don't you want pq.dll renamed cygpq.dll, etc. too?

Jason

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