On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 15:07 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 04/15/2011 04:36 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 12:28 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >> Yeah, what is the point of this?:
> >>
> >> -# Adjust REGRESS_OPTS because we need a UTF8 database
> >> -REGRESS_OPTS = --dbname=$(CONTRIB_TESTDB) --multibyte=UTF8 --no-locale
> >> +# We need a UTF8 database +ENCODING = UTF8 +NO_LOCALE = 1
> >>
> >>
> >> Wouldn't it have worked just to change the way we spelled the option
> >> name in the REGRESS_OPTS line?
> > It would have, but this way you have the same uniform interface
> > everywhere. For example, you can easily override the encoding that that
> > test prescribes.
> Well whatever we do, the buildfarm is currently broken for all MSVC
> builds because of this change, so I hope you're intending to fix this.
I was able to fix this properly now after figuring out that you can
actually run vcregress.pl on Linux. So it should be easier to deal with
these sorts of issues in the future.
