On 2013-02-22 12:34:19 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2013-02-22 14:55:06 +0000, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > Blind attempt at fixing the non-MSVC Windows builds
> > > 
> > > Apparently, they need -DBUILDING_DLL for the Assert() declarations to
> > > work correctly.
> > 
> > More specifically, they need that do access any PGDLLIMPORT symbols. Of
> > which
> > extern PGDLLIMPORT bool assert_enabled;
> > is one. So that seems like the appropriate fix.
> 
> Yeah, I'm not really sure if this is okay for both build environments or
> is only needed in the backend.  Right now there should be no difference
> because we're not using relpath.c in frontend programs; but if we add
> pg_xlogdump there might be further problems.

I don't think it will matter for relpath itself because that doesn't
seem to access anything but assert_enabled - and that only in backend
builds.
But if we add further stuff which really might access 'extern'
variables, it should also be needed in frontend programs unless I miss
something.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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