Re: BUG #10436: Can't compile 9.4 with this mingw64-w32 gcc 4.8.1, 4.8.2, 4.8.3

On 2014-05-24 12:35:08 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> lr@pcorp.us writes:
> > In trying to track down the issue I am having here:
> > http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/2746
>
> > I tried to see if I'd have better luck with newer chains -- but none of the
> > chains I tried 4.8.3, 4.8.2, 4.8.1 (mingw64-w32 sjlj exception (win32
> > threading) can even get past configure step with the latest snapshot from:
> > ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/snapshot/dev/
>
> > The error I got trying to compile with 4.8.1 is:
>
> > undefined reference to `_set_invalid_parameter_handler'
>
> > The 4.8.3 I got a different error, but can't remember what that was.
>
> > To rule out just the chains, I tried rebuilding 9.3.4 with 4.8.1 chain and
> > had no issue.  So it seems something has changed in the 9.4 code that makes
> > it not possible to build with these newer mingw64-w32 chains.
>
> If it's not getting through configure, the only plausible explanation
> seems to be that something in autoconf 2.69 broke it.

It could also be the linking changes made while trying to make missing
PGDLLIMPORTs more visible.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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