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Re: Binutils objcopy bug (was Re: rebase segfault)


On 1/30/2013 5:46 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

Autoconf+Automake will be a much cleaner approach, and will
allow to avoid at all the platform checks.
Yes, I had the same impression but it is unfortunately not realistic.
I worked against dllwrap removal but got stuck somewhere.
When I find my old patches I'll hand it over to you. Just came back
from holidays.


I will be very happy to work with you to remove the use of dllwrap etc. for cygwin. Since I'm a Postgres committer (and the only one interested in Cygwin at all) I'm in a good position to do this. I believe the Postgres project had problems in the past with automake and made a decision long ago not to use it, so we're not going down that route. However, that surely need not stop us from getting this working.

cheers

andrew


Hi Andrew, I see most of the other platforms are using "gcc --shared" instead of dllwrap. I suspect that just switching away from dllwrap will improve the situation.

Postgresql is the only package, where I was forced to remove
debug information to have a running binary.

I will very happy to work on this change

Marco
(current maintainer of Postgresql package)



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