Re: lib problems

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> OK, I have a C version of initdb that apparently works fine on
> Unix, and is only missing signal handling. (If anyone is curious
> and/or adventurous I can email you a copy).
>
> When I compile on W32/Mingw I get this:
>
> $ make gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations
> -DPGBINDIR=\"/usr/local/pgsql/bin\"
> -DPGDATADIR=\"/usr/local/pgsql/share\" -L../../../src/port
> initdb.o -lpgport -o initdb
> ../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o)(.text+0xe1):dirmod.c: undefined reference to `errstart'
> ../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o)(.text+0xef):dirmod.c: undefined reference to `elog_finish'
> ../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o)(.text+0x11a):dirmod.c: undefined reference to `errstart'
> ../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o)(.text+0x128):dirmod.c: undefined reference to `elog_finish'
> ../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o)(.text+0x1df):dirmod.c: undefined reference to `errstart'
> ../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o)(.text+0x1ef):dirmod.c: undefined reference to `elog_finish'
> ../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o)(.text+0x21a):dirmod.c: undefined reference to `errstart'
> ../../../src/port/libpgport.a(dirmod.o)(.text+0x22a):dirmod.c: undefined reference to `elog_finish'
> make: *** [initdb] Error 1
>
> The strange thing is I didn't get that this morning, but I assume
> it's clearly because I added some unlink calls.
>
> Anyone have clues about how to fix this? Compile a copy of
> dirmod.c with FRONTEND defined, maybe? Or just remove the logging
> statements from pgunlink altogether - unlink should really be
> silent.

You should define FRONTEND.  That is the proper way to handle those
function calls becaues they don't have to be atomic for clients.

> BTW, if the W32 timing problems that apply to unlink() also
> apply to rmdir(), we'll need a replacement for that too.

No, that one should be fine.

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