Re: forward vs backward slashes in msvc build code

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: forward vs backward slashes in msvc build code
Date: 2015-03-12 21:20:56
Message-ID: 20150312212056.GE3291@alvh.no-ip.org
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 3/4/15 11:00 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> > On 03/04/2015 10:37 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> >> I can't tell from just looking at the code how chkpass would normally
> >> find crypt. The msvc tools neither parse SHLIB_LINK nor have hardcoded
> >> knowledge. Any idea?
>
> > Which library is it in? There are sections at the top of Mkvcbuild.pm
> > for including various libraries in contrib modules that need them.
>
> This is contrib/chkpass not finding the crypt symbol, which is
> presumably in some library. But I can't see how it would normally find
> it, without my patch.

It seems crypt is provided by libpgport. So chkpass should be mentioned
in @contrib_uselibpgport, but isn't. Maybe the fix is just to add it
there?

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