Commit 3c163a7fc's original choice to ignore all #define symbols whose
names begin with underscore turns out to be too simplistic. On Windows,
some Perl installations are built with -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T, and we must
absorb that or we get the wrong result for sizeof(PerlInterpreter).
This effectively re-reverts commit ef58b87df, which injected that symbol
in a hacky way, making it apply to all of Postgres not just PL/Perl.
More significantly, it did so on *all* 32-bit Windows builds, even when
the Perl build to be used did not select this option; so that it fails
to work properly with some newer Perl builds.
By making this change, we would be introducing an ABI break in 32-bit
Windows builds; but fortunately we have not used type time_t in any
exported Postgres APIs in a long time. So it should be OK, both for
PL/Perl itself and for third-party extensions, if an extension library
is built with a different _USE_32BIT_TIME_T setting than the core code.
Patch by me, based on research by Ashutosh Sharma and Robert Haas.
Back-patch to all supported branches, as commit 3c163a7fc was.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANFyU97OVQ3+Mzfmt3MhuUm5NwPU=-FtbNH5Eb7nZL9ua8=rcA@mail.gmail.com
Switching the Windows build scripts to use forward slashes instead of
backslashes has caused a couple of issues in VC builds:
- The file tree list was not correctly generated, build script
generating vcproj file missing tree dependencies when listing items in
Filter.
- VC builds do not accept file paths with forward slashes, perhaps it
could be possible to use a Condition but it seems safer to simply
enforce the file paths to use backslashes in the vcproj files.
- chkpass had an unneeded dependency with libpgport and libpgcommon to
make build succeed but actually it is not necessary as crypt.c is
already listed for this project and should be replaced with a fake name
as it is a unique file.
Michael Paquier
The old pattern would match files with strange extensions like *.ry or
*.lpp. Refactor it to only include files with known extensions, and to make
it more readable.
Per Andrew Dunstan's suggestion.
The ASLR in Windows 8/Windows 2012 can break PostgreSQL's shared memory. It
doesn't fail every time (which is explained by the Random part in ASLR), but
can fail with errors abut failing to reserve shared memory region.
MauMau, reviewed by Craig Ringer
This was removed in commit cd00406774,
we're not quite sure why, but there have been reports of crashes due
to AS Perl being built with it when we are not, and it certainly
seems like the right thing to do. There is still some uncertainty
as to why it sometimes fails and sometimes doesn't.
Original patch from Owais Khani, substantially reworked and
extended by Andrew Dunstan.
Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan
Heikki Linnakangas
Magnus Hagander