Re: [patch] build issues on Win32

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:28:55PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des(at)des(dot)no> writes:
> > Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >> It builds for everybody else (and we do have multiple mingw
> >> machines in the buildfarm, so it's not like this doesn't get
> >> tested). I think there is some other factor involved here, and
> >> you need to identify what that is.
>
> > --disable-shared, as previously mentioned.
>
> Oh. Well, we don't really support that, and there is a proposal on
> the table to remove it altogether from the configure script. I
> don't think we're going to contort our source code in order to make
> a marginal improvement in the ability to coexist with random other
> code that is also polluting the link-time namespace.

+1 for de-supporting this option.

Cheers,
David.
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