Re: mingw initdb failure on HEAD

Takahiro Itagaki wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Several buildfarm mingw members are getting failures like this, when 
>> running initdb:
>> <http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=dawn_bat&dt=2010-05-27%2019:45:18>
>>
>> Could it have been caused by the PGDLLIMPORT/PGDLLEXPORT changes?
>>     
>
> Probably, but it's curious because MSVC members are OK.
> Do we have special treatments for exported functions in mingw?
> It might export 'dllimport' funtions/variables, but not 'dllexport' ones.
>
>
>   

It has broken Cygwin as well, so that's two out of three Windows 
platforms that don't like this.

I am not sure what the best fix for the original problem is, but this 
isn't it.

cheers

andrew