Re: APR 1.0 released - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: APR 1.0 released
Date
Msg-id 200409102026.i8AKQRb16457@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: APR 1.0 released  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> 
> Reini Urban wrote:
> 
> > Bruce Momjian schrieb:
> >
> >> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >>
> >>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> There are alot of windows.h includes:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ... and most of them are redundant because it is already included 
> >>> via c.h.
> >>
> >>
> >> Right, but we only include windows.h in Mingw.  Does Cygwin need it?
> >
> >
> > Not really, but it will be lot of new work, which is imho not worth it.
> >
> > In some places the cygwin section calls WinAPI functions.
> > It could be worked around by using the posix/cygwin counterparts.
> >
> > pgsymlink for example.
> 
> 
> I'm quite certain we can avoid the problem if we are careful. But 
> wouldn't it be better to get rid of the problem instead by using some 
> other marker?

Agreed.  We would never be sure we got them all and new ones didn't get
added in over time.

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