Re: timezone changes break windows and cygwin

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Add to this something Magnus mentioned that I did not see until just
> > now.  The backend links in timezone/SUBSYS.o, which doesn't use pgport,
> > so you have pgport versions and native versions of some functions in the
> > same backend binary.  I am not sure that will always work.  Add to that,
> > are those object files fully compatible with the backend?
> 
> The patch was never supposed to change timezone/SUBSYS.o!  Only the zic
> executable.  If it's having any side effects on what goes into SUBSYS.o,
> it's simply wrong.

Well, my NO_PGPORT is affecting timezone/SUBSYS.o because there is no
way to compile zic without removing pgport library symbols from the
object files.

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