Re: stat() vs cygwin - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

I'm confused. There is a Cygwin member of buildfarm, working quite 
happily. Can you point me to the exact patch in question, please? I 
thought we resolved the matter of stat() ages ago.

cheers

andrew

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> If we have no plan to apply this patch, do we need to remove Cygwin as a
> supported platform?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>   
>> Where are we on this?  The patch was not acceptable for several reasons;
>> for one:
>>
>>     
>>> And finally:
>>> -????????????VALUE?"OriginalFilename",?"libpq.dll\0"
>>> +????????????VALUE?"OriginalFilename",?"cygpq.dll\0"
>>>
>>> This obviously has to be done another way, because that change will
>>> affect the win32 platform as well...
>>>       
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Reini Urban wrote:
>>     
>>> Dave Page schrieb:
>>>       
>>>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Yes.
>>>>>
>>>>> As in the cygwin build does build. Nobody really has verified if the fix
>>>>> is needed there. But frankly, if you are likely to care about the
>>>>> effects of this issue, you won't be running cygwin anyway. It's mostly a
>>>>> dead platform for postgresql anyway, AFAICS we only keep it building for
>>>>> legacy compatibility. Once it starts taking lots of resources to keep
>>>>> building (which it doesn't now), I think we should just drop it instead...
>>>>>           
>>> "Dead" is interesting. We see a lot of cygwin users having postgresql 
>>> installed.
>>>
>>>       
>>>> FWIW, the most recent packages from Cygwin themselves are 8.2.5.
>>>>         
>>> Update: 8.2.9 is latest.
>>> 8.3.x not because the new SSPI doesn't work yet.
>>>
>>> currently failing is: --with-gssapi --with-krb5 --with-tcl --with-java 
>>> --with-ossp-uuid --with-ldap
>>> (but ldap works okay with 8.2.9)
>>>
>>> currently testing is: --enable-nls --with-CXX --with-openssl --with-perl 
>>> --with-python --with-libxml --with-libxslt
>>>
>>> current cygwin patch in testing is attached.
>>> -- 
>>> Reini Urban
>>> postgresql cygwin maintainer
>>>
>>>       
>> -- 
>>   Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
>>   EnterpriseDB                             http://enterprisedb.com
>>
>>   + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
>>
>> -- 
>> Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
>> To make changes to your subscription:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
>>     
>
>