Re: [HACKERS] A quick warning on the win32 build scripts

2010-12-20 Thread Magnus Hagander
(Hello, very old thread) On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 16:29, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au writes: The cause turns out to be the automatic .DEF file generation. It skips DEF file generation if a DEF file already exists, even if the object/sources are

[HACKERS] A quick warning on the win32 build scripts

2010-10-05 Thread Craig Ringer
Hi I lost a few hours trying to nut out an issue with the crash handler I'm building as a contrib module. Having found out what was going on, I want to post it here to help Google find it if others hit it later. Compilation of the contrib module was failing during linkage with bizarre

Re: [HACKERS] A quick warning on the win32 build scripts

2010-10-05 Thread Tom Lane
Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au writes: The cause turns out to be the automatic .DEF file generation. It skips DEF file generation if a DEF file already exists, even if the object/sources are newer than the existing DEF file. Um, so can't we fix that? It seems like a rather basic