On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 02:19:27PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Jon Burgess <jburgess777@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I think the problem with the .a above is due to the default 'ar' failing > > to process the Windows style object symbols. > > > I managed to build PostgreSQL a couple of weeks back with MinGW on F9. I > > had to override a few of the default tools, e.g. > > > $ make AR=i686-pc-mingw32-ar DLLTOOL=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/dlltool > > DLLWRAP=i686-pc-mingw32-dllwrap > > That makes sense. Could you have simplified matters by just prepending > /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin to your PATH? That is a possibility, but we recommend against doing that where posible in Mingw RPM builds and cannot do it by default, because a number of programs need to be able to use both the native & mingw versions of 'ar' in their configure script. eg, they use native toolchain to build a helper program, that they then use in their build process. So we can't simply point 'ar' to the mingw version. In autotool'd apps configure will generally do the right thing & find i6868-pc-mingw32-ae, for other apps, having a makefile variable AR=ar will at least allow for easy override when doing a mingw build by adding AR=i686-pc-mingw32-ar to the make flags. Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
