Re: [PATCHES] patch for minor Win32 makefile bug

You may be right, if I understand you, that the exact value of DLLLIBS
that was in backend/Makefile should be used in makefiles/Makefile.win.
Should I submit a new patch to that effect?

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 11:23:54PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Fred Yankowski <fcy@acm.org> writes:
> > While working on a patch that allows postmaster to run as an NT service
> > with Cygwin, I found minor problem in backend/Makefile.  In order to add
> > an additional library to the final link/build of postgres.exe, I changed
> > the DLLLIBS variable in makefiles/Makefile.win.  But this change had no
> > effect until I removed the line in backend/Makefile that also sets
> > DLLLIB, hiding the value from Makefile.win.
>
> Hm.  Clearly we should have only one definition, so I've applied your
> patch.  But if the one in backend/Makefile was the controlling one,
> shouldn't we make the entry in makefiles/Makefile.win match what was
> in Makefile?  Seems like that is the value that's been tested so far.

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