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 wrote: > Craig Ringer 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,

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

2010-10-05 Thread Tom Lane
Craig Ringer 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 expectation of a build pro

[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 errors