Re: Removing dependency to wsock32.lib when compiling code on WIndows

On 08/29/2014 10:15 AM, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:29:31PM -0400, Noah Misch wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 09:18:22AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> What's happening about this? Buildfarm animal jacana is consistently
>>> red because of this.
>> If nobody plans to do the aforementioned analysis in the next 4-7 days, I
>> suggest we adopt one of Michael's suggestions: force "configure" to reach its
>> old conclusion about getaddrinfo() on Windows.  Then the analysis can proceed
>> on an unhurried schedule.
> Done.
>
> Incidentally, jacana takes an exorbitant amount of time, most recently 87
> minutes, to complete the ecpg-check step.  Frogmouth takes 4 minutes, and none
> of the other steps have such a large multiplier between the two animals.  That
> pattern isn't new and appears on multiple branches.  I wonder if ecpg tickles
> a performance bug in 64-bit MinGW-w64.
>


Good pickup. I wonder what it could be.

cheers

andrew