Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:46:06 -0400 From: Jason Tishler To: Steve Jorgensen Cc: "Cygwin List (E-mail)" Subject: Re: initdb failure - postgres hangs with 100% CPU Message-ID: <20010712154606.C554@dothill.com> Mail-Followup-To: Steve Jorgensen , "Cygwin List (E-mail)" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01C10A11.38099B40.jorgens@coho.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp. Steve, On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:56:00PM -0700, Steve Jorgensen wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Tishler [SMTP:Jason.Tishler@dothill.com] > [Steve Jorgensen] Doh! Right, .a is not a shared library on any platform. > I take it that Cygwin actually uses .dll as its normal shared library > type, then, and does not have its own unique shared library type? Yes, but Cygwin is really just a Win32 DLL so it can't have its own unique shared library type. > I presume this library is called pq.dll on Cygwin to avoid name conflicts > with libpq.dll if both exist on a single system? That would be my guess too. This is an example of why Chuck Wilson proposed prefixing Cygwin DLLs with "cyg" to prevent this kind of conflict. > [Steve Jorgensen] I'm figuring (not that I know what I'm talking about) > that if I want to use autoconf/automake, I should try to use gcc. I don't > know much about these tools yet, but I imagine teaching them to handle > Windows paths would be a big hassle and not worth the trouble since gcc > -mno-cygwin is an available option. For reason like the above, I prefer to use Cygwin gcc -mno-cygwin over Mingw. Jason -- Jason Tishler Director, Software Engineering Phone: 732.264.8770 x235 Dot Hill Systems Corp. Fax: 732.264.8798 82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: Jason.Tishler@dothill.com Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/