Re: Cygwin - make check broken

Rocco Altier schrieb:
> It looks like when we changed regress/GNUmakefile to pull rules from
> Makefile.shlib, cygwin got broken in the process.
>
> The problem is that regess.dll ends up being a symlink back to itself,
> because we do a:
> $(NAME)$(DLSUFFIX): $(shlib)
> rm -f $(NAME)$(DLSUFFIX)
> $(LN_S) $(shlib) $(NAME)$(DLSUFFIX)
>
> And from Makefile.shlib (for cygwin)
> ifeq ($(PORTNAME), cygwin)
> shlib = $(NAME)$(DLSUFFIX)
>
> Thus regress.dll gets unhappy :-(
>
> I don't know enough about the rest of the way the cygwin port is put
> together, but it seems that the other platforms all have
> shlib=lib$(NAME)...

For cygwin the normal rule is cyg$(NAME)$(DLSUFFIX),
but the postgresql maintainers refused to changed the prefix for 8.0

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