Re: [CYGWIN] Request for supported platforms - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jason Tishler
Subject Re: [CYGWIN] Request for supported platforms
Date
Msg-id 20021030190408.GF284@tishler.net
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In response to Re: [CYGWIN] Request for supported platforms  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter,

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 07:36:40PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Dave Page writes:
> > Hackers: As the Cygwin release that is actively supported is the
> > binary distribution that Jason builds, I would think this is OK to
> > be listed as supported if no-one disagrees...
>
> I disagree.  We document as supported those platforms that build out
> of the box, not those that build somehow, somewhere, by someone.
>
> Rather than advocating methods to manually edit your system headers we
> should try to find out what the problem really is, such as by
> analyzing config.log.

Did you miss the following?

    http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-10/msg01303.php

As you can see, I have already performed root cause analysis of theses
problems *and* have taken the proper steps to ensure that PostgreSQL
builds OOTB under Cygwin (after the next Cygwin release).

Jason

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