[postgis-devel] Win32 crashes with 1.1.5

[Paul Ramsey]

Sounds good, let's roll this out ASAP.
P

On 9-Oct-06, at 11:28 AM, strk at refractions.net wrote:

> Ok with me, but let's also include the loader/dumper README
> issue and the documentation source for Java
> Markus ?
>
> --strk;
>
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 05:42:42PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> After over a week of working on this, I have finally discovered  
>> why my
>> pgsql2shp.exe executables have been crashing on PostgreSQL 8.2  
>> betas -
>> an incorrect link line for pgsql2shp.exe was triggering a bug in  
>> MingW's
>> linker (sigh). See here for the gory details:
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg00448.php.
>>
>> In fact, the error was being caused by a redundant PGFELIBS line  
>> within
>> a mingw-specific section that was overwriting the correct version  
>> - I've
>> committed a fix by removing the offending line. Apologies that it  
>> took
>> so long to find and fix the error.
>>
>> Given that this prevents MingW Win32 users from building working
>> pgsql2shp executables, I'd be inclined to say that this warrants  
>> another
>> release for the benefit of the Win32 PostgreSQL installer people.
>> Markus, this could also give you a chance to bump the version  
>> numbers on
>> the JDBC driver to match the PostGIS version if you felt it were
>> necessary.
>>
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>>
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