Hi, On 2022-10-05 13:07:10 -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > 0004: solaris: Check for -Wl,-E directly instead of checking for gnu LD > > This allows us to get rid of the nontrivial detection of with_gnu_ld, > simplifying meson PGXS compatibility. It's also nice to delete libtool.m4. > > I don't like the SOLARIS_EXPORT_DYNAMIC variable I invented. If somebody has > a better idea...
A cleaner approach could be to add a LDFLAGS_BE and emit the -Wl,-E into it from both configure and meson, solely based on whether -Wl,-E is supported. I haven't verified cygwin, but on our other platforms that seems to do the right thing. Greetings, Andres Freund