Re: Not *quite* there on ecpg fixes

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Not *quite* there on ecpg fixes
Date: 2007-10-04 17:45:35
Message-ID: 470526BF.1050609@dunslane.net
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Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:04:41AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
>> It looks like dlltool does not like the .def file:
>> ...
>> Line 3 of that file is unadorned "EXPORTS":
>>
>> echo '; DEF file for MS VC++' > libpgtypesdll.def
>> echo 'LIBRARY LIBPGTYPES' >> libpgtypesdll.def
>> echo 'EXPORTS' >> libpgtypesdll.def
>> ...
>> I wonder why the dlltool failure is not causing the build to fail
>> immediately?
>>
>
> These lines are simply copied from libpq/Makefile but ddltool does not
> complain while working on libpq. Any idea where they differ?
>

One thing I noticed is this:

ifneq ($(PORTNAME), win32)
OBJS += thread.o
DLL_DEFFILE=libecpgdll.def
endif

Why are we defining DLL_DEFFILE for the non-win32 case but not for the
win32 case?

That seems rather odd.

cheers

andrew

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