Re: pg_config --pgxs on Win32 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: pg_config --pgxs on Win32
Date
Msg-id 200510152156.46874.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: pg_config --pgxs on Win32  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> I don't see an easy way out. Half the system thinks backslashes are
> special and need expansion, the other half thinks forward slashes are
> option markers. This is really just a variation on the "space in
> filenames" issue in UNIX.

pg_config --pgxs is supposed to be included from a makefile, and while 
GNU make supports command.com/cmd.exe to be the underlying shell of a 
make process, it's unlikely that our makefiles do, so you need a 
Unix-style shell anyway, so the forward slashes are not a problem.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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