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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:46:06 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
To: Steve Jorgensen <jorgens AT coho DOT net>
Cc: "Cygwin List (E-mail)" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: initdb failure - postgres hangs with 100% CPU
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Steve,

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:56:00PM -0700, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jason Tishler [SMTP:Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com]
> [Steve Jorgensen]  Doh!  Right, .a is not a shared library on any platform. 
>  I take it that Cygwin actually uses .dll as its normal shared library 
> type, then, and does not have its own unique shared library type?

Yes, but Cygwin is really just a Win32 DLL so it can't have its own
unique shared library type.

> I presume this library is called pq.dll on Cygwin to avoid name conflicts 
> with libpq.dll if both exist on a single system?

That would be my guess too.  This is an example of why Chuck Wilson
proposed prefixing Cygwin DLLs with "cyg" to prevent this kind of conflict.

> [Steve Jorgensen]  I'm figuring (not that I know what I'm talking about) 
> that if I want to use autoconf/automake, I should try to use gcc.  I don't 
> know much about these tools yet, but I imagine teaching them to handle 
> Windows paths would be a big hassle and not worth the trouble since gcc 
> -mno-cygwin is an available option.

For reason like the above, I prefer to use Cygwin gcc -mno-cygwin over
Mingw.

Jason

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