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

OK, I removed DLLINIT from Cygwin Makefile.shlib so it is now the same
as Win32.  I don't see any easy way to use ifeq to test multiple port
strings so I didn't merge the duplicate Win32 and Cygwin Makefile
actions.

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Reini Urban wrote:
> Jason Tishler schrieb:
> > 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...
>
> I build successfully without this DLLINIT yestreday, and ran then into
> the one remaining regression error, which I reported before (during
> inserting some polygons in the parallel suite).
>
> But this is for sure not related, so you can safely clean that mess up,
> (remove that dir) and merge the win32 and cygwin makefile recipe.
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