On 2/7/22 21:40, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>>> What is the reason behind subtracting ccdlflags?
>> It looks like the coding actually originated here:
>> commit f5d0c6cad5bb2706e0e63f3f8f32e431ea428100
> Ah, here's the thread leading up to that:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/200106191206.f5JC6R108371%40candle.pha.pa.us
>
> The use of ldopts rather than hand-hacked link options seems to date to
> 0ed7864d6, only a couple days before that. I don't think we had a
> buildfarm then, but I'd bet against the problem being especially
> widespread even then, or more people would've complained.
The buildfarm's first entry is from 22 Oct 2004.
cheers
andrew
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