RE: [gnome-db] Compiling libgda in cygwin

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 10:22, Andres Moya wrote:
> El vie, 18-04-2003 a las 12:20, Rodrigo Moya escribió:
> > On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 00:35, Andres Moya wrote:
> 
> > > Now I've found another two issues, probably they have the same cause:
> > > 
> > > 1) When I enable PostgreSQL provide with --with-postgres, the script
> > > does not find it. It's because it looks for 'libpq.so' library
> > > (configure.in, line 233), but in Cygwin the only library is 'libpq.a'.
> > > 
> > > I've managed to compile all by changing this line by hand. :-P
> > > 
> > you could do a 'AND' to check for one or the other, so that it works on
> > both.
> 
> Ok, but this will fail if another people try to port libgda to other OS
> :-?
> 
> Anyway, I've put a bug in Bugzilla for this.
> 
well, it shouldn't. We should just look for the different extensions in
the order we want -> .so, .a, .dll, .others.

It might cause problems though for installations having both .a and .dll
on windows. Is that the case somewhere?

cheers