Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2014-05-25 13:42:48 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hm. It would be pretty disappointing to have to do that, because it would
>> be admitting complete defeat in trying to get the various Windows build
>> toolchains to have consistent link behavior. We put enough sweat into
>> that goal last winter that I don't really want to just walk away.
> Yea. And it did catch a couple of bugs...
> How about removing it for 9.4 only once that has branched? That'd make
> less users be affected while we hope for mingw to fix that?
I fear that'd just mean we deal with it again next year :-(.
It occurs to me that we could make configure probe for whether
--disable-auto-import breaks simple test programs on Mingw. That would
catch this particular manifestation with _set_invalid_parameter_handle,
although there would still be opportunities to fail later perhaps.
Not sure if it's worth the trouble.
regards, tom lane