On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 19:34, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > > > On 01/31/2011 12:17 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 18:14, Andrew Dunstan<and...@dunslane.net> wrote: >>> >>> Following recent discussions and the enabling of 64 bit Mingw builds, I >>> propose to make the attached changes to the docs. I don't see any great >>> reason for us to advise against building with Mingw, especially now that >>> we >>> have 64 bit support for it, so I removed that, amd also clarified where >>> Cygwin is useful and where it's not, as well as adding some detail about >>> how >>> to make 64 bit builds. >> >> Agreed, and looks good to me. >> >> Do you know if cygwin psql works in non-US locales these days? It used >> to be that it didn't, and if we recommend it we should probably >> include a notice if it doesn't. > > > I just tested by setting my machine to fr_FR, and also setting > LANG=fr_FR.utf8 under Cygwin. The build failed. The I set Cygwin back to > LANG=C.utf8 and the build/install succeeded. After that, I switched back to > LANG=fr_FR.utf8, and initdb, pg_ctl start and psql all behaved as expected. > I'm adding a note accordingly. > > Some day I'll try to work out why the build went boom, but now I need to > move on to other things.
The thing that *didn't* work for me previously was running it with *windows* in a different locale. Meaning setting "regional settings" in the control panel to something like, say, Swedish :-) Or for that matter, french. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
