Re: Cygwin - make check broken

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Rocco Altier <RoccoA@Routescape.com>
Date: 2005-08-07T18:27:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Marko Kreen wrote:

>On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 12:08:28PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>Couple thoughts here --- one, someone upthread suggested
>>"cyg$(NAME)$(DLSUFFIX" as the proper value for shlib.  I didn't
>>see why at first, but now it occurs to me that it might avoid name
>>collisions with Windows-native builds, which use the "lib" prefix.
>>I'm not sure if DLLs for Cygwin and native builds would ever go
>>into the same directory though.  Is this worth worrying about?
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>.exe's in different directories than .dll's but all in PATH.
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Especially DLLs in the system directory. Anyway, I see no point *not* to 
observe the platform's convention.

I just tested it and make check worked fine.

cheers

andrew