Re: Cygwin PostgreSQL CVS Patch Question - Mailing list pgsql-ports

Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com> writes:
>> Er, why should it?  With the code as it stands, configure should decide
>> that Cygwin doesn't HAVE_SYS_NERR, and so nothing will reference
>> sys_nerr.

> Unfortunately, the above is not true:

>     $ configure
>     ...
>     checking for sys_nerr... yes

That's pretty darn interesting.  The configure check looks bulletproof
to me:

    [AC_TRY_LINK([extern int sys_nerr;],
      [int x = sys_nerr;],

Would you poke into it and figure out how this is succeeding, if there's
not any sys_nerr variable exported from the C library?

            regards, tom lane