Re: [CYGWIN] [HACKERS] Need for DLLINIT in Makefile.shlib

Jason Tishler <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:30:00 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.cygwin
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:37:48AM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> Bruce Momjian schrieb:
> >I am curious why Cygwin needs DLLINIT in Makefile.shlib, and Win32
> >doesn't:
> >
> >	[snip]
> >
> >The only difference I see is that Cygwin uses $(DLLINIT) while Win32
> >does not.  Is that correct?  Why?
> >
> >Both set DLLINIT in their makefiles:
> >
> >	DLLINIT = $(top_builddir)/src/utils/dllinit.o
> >
> >Could they be merged into a single snipped of code?
> 
> Good point!  Out of my head: I don't think that we (cygwin) don't need
> that anymore.  With newer binutils it should get autogenerated. But
> I'll have to test before you can remove that dir.

I concur with Reini.  The DLLINIT stuff is a vestige from b20.1.  FWIW,
I attempted to remove it 3 - 4 years ago, but was unsuccessful...

Jason

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