Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Windows: Make pg_ctl reliably detect service status

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > Windows: Make pg_ctl reliably detect service status
> > > 
> > > pg_ctl is using isatty() to verify whether the process is running in a
> > > terminal, and if not it sends its output to Windows' Event Log ... which
> > > does the wrong thing when the output has been redirected to a pipe, as
> > > reported in bug #13592.
> > 
> > This broke the mingw port.  Looking.
> 
> A bit of grepping appears to say that I ought to patch configure.in to
> add
>   AC_LIBOBJ(win32security)
> around line 1580 and rerun autoconf, but this seems completely at odds
> with the documented use of AC_LIBOBJS.  Is this black magic?

I confirmed that adding that line makes the new file get compiled.  I
also noticed these warnings when compiling it:

In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.9-win32/include/stdarg.h:1:0,                from
/pgsql/source/master/src/include/c.h:85,               from /pgsql/source/master/src/include/postgres_fe.h:25,
     from /pgsql/source/master/src/port/win32security.c:17:
 
/pgsql/source/master/src/port/win32security.c: In function ‘log_error’:
/pgsql/source/master/src/port/win32security.c:37:11: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘__builtin_va_start’ from
incompatiblepointer type va_start(fmt, ap);          ^
 
/pgsql/source/master/src/port/win32security.c:37:11: note: expected ‘char **’ but argument is of type ‘const char **’
/pgsql/source/master/src/port/win32security.c:37:2: warning: second parameter of ‘va_start’ not last named argument
[-Wvarargs]va_start(fmt, ap); ^
 

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