Il 7/25/2013 11:02 PM, Alvaro Herrera ha scritto:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Jeff Janes asked me about this, and Bruce just tripped up on it.
>> Usually on Windows it's necessary to have libpq.dll/cygpq.dll either
>> in the PATH or in the same directory as client .exe files. The
>> buildfarm client has for many years simply copied this dll from the
>> installation lib to the installation bin directory after running
>> "make install". But I can't really see why we don't do that as part
>> of "make install" anyway. I haven't tested but I think something
>> like this patch would achieve this goal - it would fix something
>> that's tripped a lot of people up over the years.
>
> Seems a reasonable workaround for a silly platform bug. Do you need to
> patch the MSVC stuff as well?
>
>> Comments? If we do this, should it be backported?
>
> To 9.3, sure, but not further back, as there's probably little point.
on cygwin no need to go before 9.3 .
We already moved them during the package build as workaround.
>
>> +ifneq (,$findstring($(PORTNAME), win32 cygwin))
>> + $(INSTALL_DATA) $(shlib) '$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$(shlib)'
>> +endif
>
> I wonder if someday we will create a win64 $(PORTNAME) value, or
> something like that, and then we'll have to update the port list on
> which these hacks are applied all over the place. Not complaining
> about this patch in particular, just an idle thought.
>
Andrew,
are you planning to include also
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/E1UqoYt-0007Qc-9E@wrigleys.postgresql.org
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/51B59794.3000500@gmail.com
to get rid of dllwrap ?
Regards
Marco