On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 09:00:23AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > This doesn't make much sense (anymore?) since MinGW surely has sed and > MSVC doesn't use this (and has Perl). I think this is a leftover from > various ancient client-only ad-hoc Windows build provisions (those > win32.mak files we used to have around). Also, the ddll.def (debug > build) isn't used by anything anymore AFAICT.
sed is present in MinGW for some time, at least 2009 if you look here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Base/sed/ Cygwin also includes sed, so this cleanup makes sense. > I think we can clean this up and just have the regular ddl.def built > normally at build time if required. > > Does anyone know more about this? This comes from here, but I cannot see a thread about this topic around this date: commit: a1d5d8574751d62a039d8ceb44329ee7c637196a author: Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:41:24 +0000 Refactor the code that creates the shared library export files to appear only once in Makefile.shlib and not in four copies. -- Michael
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