Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script

2004-04-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Dann Corbit wrote: > The response from the Mingw team: > >Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie) > > Date: 2004-04-08 07:33 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=15438 > > Symbolic links to files and directories do not work on Win32 > in general. Support for symlink operation is limited to the source

Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script

2004-04-09 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane said: > "Dann Corbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The response from the Mingw team: > >>> Symbolic links to files and directories do not work on Win32 >>> in general. Support for symlink operation is limited to the source >>> directory or file existing and being able to copy the source

Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script

2004-04-08 Thread Tom Lane
"Dann Corbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The response from the Mingw team: >> Symbolic links to files and directories do not work on Win32 >> in general. Support for symlink operation is limited to the source >> directory or file existing and being able to copy the source to the >> destination

Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script

2004-04-08 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: Dann Corbit > Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 10:34 AM > To: Tom Lane > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script

2004-04-07 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:55 PM > To: Dann Corbit > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script > > > "Dann Corbit" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script

2004-04-07 Thread Magnus Hagander
> whilst I have, on rare occasions, observed the symlink > failure under MingW, I've never come across the other issues > you've mentioned (I build from cvs, instead of snapshots, but > I can't imagine that causes these problems). I'm running off snapshots (my bison install is badly broken),

Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script

2004-04-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Dann Corbit wrote: > I would like to suggest changing the symlinks to copy commands: > The reason is that under Mingw, I get random failures with the > symlinks (typically all will work but one or two, but there is no > telling which will succeed and which will fail). configure will automatically

Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script

2004-04-06 Thread Tom Lane
"Dann Corbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to suggest changing the symlinks to copy commands: That would cause make to fail to handle update dependencies on the linked files. > The reason is that under Mingw, I get random failures with the symlinks This is the worst sort of Microso

Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script

2004-04-06 Thread Claudio Natoli
Hi Dann, > > Which version > > are you using? > > Msys version is 1.0. Ok, probably the same I'm using (MSYS-1.0.10 and MSYS-1.0.9) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /u/postgresql-snapshot > $ gcc --version > gcc.exe (GCC) 3.3.3 (mingw special) I'm using MinGW-3.1.0-1, which has: gcc.exe (GCC) 3.2.3 (mi

Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script

2004-04-06 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: Dann Corbit > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 5:47 PM > To: Claudio Natoli; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Claudio Natoli [mailto:[E

Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script

2004-04-06 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: Claudio Natoli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 5:42 PM > To: Dann Corbit; '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' > Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script > > > > Hi Dann, > > whilst I ha

Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script

2004-04-06 Thread Claudio Natoli
? Which version are you using? Is it possible the wrong libs/include files are being referenced? Are you sure parts of cygwin are not in your path? ... Cheers, Claudio -Original Message- From: Dann Corbit To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 4/7/04 7:14 AM Subject: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on

Re: [HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script

2004-04-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Dann Corbit wrote: > I would like to suggest changing the symlinks to copy commands: > > cp ./src/backend/port/tas/dummy.s ./src/backend/port/tas.s > cp ./src/backend/port/dynloader/win32.c ./src/backend/port/dynloader.c > cp ./src/backend/port/sysv_sema.c ./src/backend/port/pg

[HACKERS] Small suggestion on build script

2004-04-06 Thread Dann Corbit
I would like to suggest changing the symlinks to copy commands: cp ./src/backend/port/tas/dummy.s ./src/backend/port/tas.s cp ./src/backend/port/dynloader/win32.c ./src/backend/port/dynloader.c cp ./src/backend/port/sysv_sema.c ./src/backend/port/pg_sema.c cp ./src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c ./src/