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: > > >>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? >> >> > >.exe's in different directories than .dll's but all in PATH. > > > 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