On 2014-02-12 11:26:56 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > On 2014-02-12 10:58:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Anybody know *exactly* what --enable-auto-import does? The name > >> is, um, suggestive. > > > My ld(1)'s manpage has three screen's worth of details... Most of it > > seems to be on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ld&sektion=1 > > > It's essentially elf like shared library linking in pe-coff through > > dirty tricks. > > Hm. So if we're giving up on the idea of ever getting rid of PGDLLIMPORT, > we ought to actually remove that, so that the Cygwin build works more like > the other Windows builds?
Hm, I don't see a big advantage in detecting the errors as It won't hugely increase the buildfarm coverage. But --auto-import seems to require marking the .text sections as writable, avoiding that seems to be a good idea if we don't need it anymore. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
