postgresql: libpq.a not an import library

Thu Jun 13 13:13:00 GMT 2013

Il 6/13/2013 11:19 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) ha scritto:
> On 2013年06月13日 03:08, Danjel McGougan wrote:
>> It seems the latest libpq5 (9.2.4-2) installs /bin/cygpq-5.dll, but at
>> least xemacs fails to find this lib (it looks for cygpq.dll) and fails
>> to load. Downgrading libpq5 to 8.2.11-1 solves the xemacs issue for me.
>> Marco,
>> While I'm glad to finally have properly versioned PostgreSQL DLLs, we do
> need to worry about not breaking everything in the distro (and Ports)
> which is linked against the old, unversioned cygpq.dll.
>> I suggest renaming the old libpq5-8.x packages on sourceware to libpq,
> and changing all libpq5 deps in the distro to libpq, namely for:
>> algol68g
> clisp
> libQtSql4
> libsasl2-sql
> odbc-psql
> xemacs
>> Can you take care of this, or shall I?

Done, please check nothing else is broken.
>>> Before I downgraded I tried to symlink cygpq.dll to cygpq-5.dll, but this
>> caused xemacs to silently fail to start.
>> The Windows runtime linker doesn't understand symlinks, so that wouldn't
> have worked.

Copying cygpq-5.dll to cygpq.dll should have worked.
As soon the solution proposed by Yaakov will spread to the mirrors,
setup should pick the right solution.
> Yaakov

Regards
Marco
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