Re: Cygwin vs "win32" in configure - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Cygwin vs "win32" in configure
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Msg-id 20150315181230.GA29732@awork2.anarazel.de
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In response to Cygwin vs "win32" in configure  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Cygwin vs "win32" in configure
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Hi,

On 2015-03-15 14:03:08 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Buildfarm member brolga seems unhappy with my commit 91f4a5a that
> restricted port/dirmod.c to being built only on "Windows".  Evidently
> we need to build it when $PORTNAME = "cygwin" as well, which is fine;
> but I'm a bit astonished that none of the other stuff inserted in the
> "# Win32 support" stanza beginning at configure.in line 1440 is needed
> for cygwin builds.  Is that really correct, or am I misunderstanding
> what's happening here?

Those all sound like things that cygwin is going to emulate for us. I
guess we could use more of those functions to reduce the difference, but
I'm not sure it's worth it.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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