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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)



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