Re: Magic Blocks - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Magic Blocks
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Msg-id 1201165162.4257.114.camel@ebony.site
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In response to Re: Magic Blocks  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 19:28 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > While compiling with PGXS, the OBJS line said
> >     OBJS    = modulename.so
>
> > By changing the OBJS line to this
> >     OBJS    = modulename.o
>
> > then no error was received and it all works.
>
> > TFM just says "list objects files in OBJS".
>
> Are we really in the business of teaching C programmers the difference
> between object files and shared libraries?

It's a stupid mistake, but aren't most bugs, in hindsight? That's no
reason to leave it undocumented.

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  Simon Riggs
  2ndQuadrant  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com


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