Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 2014-02-15 17:26:30 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> The interesting question here is why it used to work. There is no >> "extern" for in6addr_any in our code, so there must have been a >> declaration of that constant in some system header. Which one, and >> what linkage is it defining, and where was the linkage getting >> resolved before?
> mingwcompat.c has the following ugly as heck tidbit: > #ifndef WIN32_ONLY_COMPILER > /* > * MingW defines an extern to this struct, but the actual struct isn't present > * in any library. It's trivial enough that we can safely define it > * ourselves. > */ > const struct in6_addr in6addr_any = {{{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, > 0, 0, 0}}}; Yeah, I noticed that. AFAICS, mingwcompat.c isn't built in Cygwin builds, so we'd probably need to put the constant someplace else entirely if we end up defining it ourselves. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers