Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

On 2014-02-12 11:26:56 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On 2014-02-12 10:58:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Anybody know *exactly* what --enable-auto-import does?  The name
> >> is, um, suggestive.
> 
> > My ld(1)'s manpage has three screen's worth of details... Most of it
> > seems to be on http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ld&sektion=1
> 
> > It's essentially elf like shared library linking in pe-coff through
> > dirty tricks.
> 
> Hm.  So if we're giving up on the idea of ever getting rid of PGDLLIMPORT,
> we ought to actually remove that, so that the Cygwin build works more like
> the other Windows builds?

Hm, I don't see a big advantage in detecting the errors as It won't
hugely increase the buildfarm coverage. But --auto-import seems to
require marking the .text sections as writable, avoiding that seems to
be a good idea if we don't need it anymore.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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