Re: Simplify documentation related to Windows builds - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Simplify documentation related to Windows builds
Date
Msg-id 20240209195921.3qwhgm2zjwpjtkmc@awork3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Simplify documentation related to Windows builds  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
Responses Re: Simplify documentation related to Windows builds
List pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2024-02-09 16:22:35 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
> index ed5b285a5e..af77352e6e 100644
> --- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
> +++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
> @@ -193,6 +193,17 @@
>        example, <literal>ICU_CFLAGS=' '</literal>.)
>       </para>
>      </listitem>
> +
> +    <listitem>
> +     <para>
> +      <indexterm>
> +       <primary>Diff</primary>
> +      </indexterm>
> +
> +      <productname>Diff</productname> is required to run the regression
> +      tests. On Windows, it may not be available by default.
> +     </para>
> +    </listitem>
>     </itemizedlist>
>    </para>

It's not installed by default on a bunch of platforms, including in common
linux distros. The same is true for bison, flex etc, so I'm not sure it's
really worth calling this out here.


> -      <varlistentry>
> -       <term><productname>MIT Kerberos</productname></term>
> -       <listitem><para>
> -        Required for GSSAPI authentication support. MIT Kerberos can be
> -        downloaded from
> -        <ulink url="https://web.mit.edu/Kerberos/dist/index.html"></ulink>.
> -       </para></listitem>
> -      </varlistentry>

Btw, this is the only dependency that I hadn't been able to test on windows
when I was hacking on the CI stuff last.  I'm not sure it relly still works.




Greetings,

Andres Freund



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