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Re: Binutils objcopy bug (was Re: rebase segfault)


On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 1:52 AM, marco atzeri  wrote:
> On 1/26/2013 7:32 AM, Reini Urban wrote:
>>> rebase is not to blame. I agree ;-)
>>> Someone else is incorrectly managing the reloc table,
>>> and also objcopy seems innocent ...
>>>
>>> Postgresql dll's are built in this way:
>>
>>
>> My strong guess is dllwrap.
>> No other packages uses the ancient dllwrap anymore.
>> I tried to get rid of it, but got stuck somewhere else.
>>
>
> Hi Reini,
> I agree dllwrap seems the coolprit, and "gcc -shared"
> seems a better alternative, at least on a single test with this dll.
>
> I looked on the postgresql makefiles and it is a big mess to
> replace dllwrap; upstream is crazy, they crippled configure
> forcing a specific version and refusing to use Automake.
>
> Autoconf+Automake will be a much cleaner approach, and will
> allow to avoid at all the platform checks.

Yes, I had the same impression but it is unfortunately not realistic.
I worked against dllwrap removal but got stuck somewhere.
When I find my old patches I'll hand it over to you. Just came back
from holidays.

> Could you make another check on 9.2.2 package before a new RFU
> http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin-1.7/postgresql/

Sorry, holidays.
Gold star please.
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