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Re: [CYGWIN] [HACKERS] Need for DLLINIT in Makefile.shlib


  • From: Jason Tishler <jason(at)tishler(dot)net>
  • To: Reini Urban <rurban(at)x-ray(dot)at>
  • Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Cygwin mailing list <pgsql-cygwin(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Win32 port list <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] [HACKERS] Need for DLLINIT in Makefile.shlib
  • Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:30:00 -0400
  • Message-id: <20041012113000(dot)GA1836(at)tishler(dot)net>

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:37:48AM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> Bruce Momjian schrieb:
> >I am curious why Cygwin needs DLLINIT in Makefile.shlib, and Win32
> >doesn't:
> >
> >	[snip]
> >
> >The only difference I see is that Cygwin uses $(DLLINIT) while Win32
> >does not.  Is that correct?  Why?
> >
> >Both set DLLINIT in their makefiles:
> >
> >	DLLINIT = $(top_builddir)/src/utils/dllinit.o
> >
> >Could they be merged into a single snipped of code?
> 
> Good point!  Out of my head: I don't think that we (cygwin) don't need
> that anymore.  With newer binutils it should get autogenerated. But
> I'll have to test before you can remove that dir.

I concur with Reini.  The DLLINIT stuff is a vestige from b20.1.  FWIW,
I attempted to remove it 3 - 4 years ago, but was unsuccessful...

Jason

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