Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 12:49:29PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Since prairiedog is not likely to be around forever, I propose that
>> we ought to enforce this going forward by arranging for common/logging.c
>> to not get built into the libpgcommon_shlib library variant.
> Agreed. This makes sense in the long term, so attached is a proposal
> of patch. I did not really see the point in complicating the MSVC
> scripts for that though. The new variable names look natural to me
> like that, the new comment may need some tweaks.
Hm, it doesn't seem like "OBJS_PGCOMMON" conveys much. I think
OBJS_FRONTEND ought to be the set of files built for frontend
application use (i.e., libpgcommon.a), so we need a new name
for what will go into libpgcommon_shlib.a. Maybe OBJS_SHLIB,
or to be even more explicit, OBJS_FRONTEND_SHLIB.
As for the comment, maybe "logging.c is excluded from OBJS_SHLIB
as a matter of policy, because it is not appropriate for general
purpose libraries such as libpq to report errors directly."
regards, tom lane
