Re: Building libpq/psql with Borland BCC5 - Mailing list pgsql-patches

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Gavin Sherry wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, L Bayuk wrote:
> >
> > > The attached patch against PostgreSQL-8.2.1 was discussed on [INTERFACES].
> > > It fixes bcc32.mak makefiles for the Borland BCC compiler to build libpq
> > > and psql*. There are also changes to some header files to hide some things
> > > BCC doesn't like.
> > >
> > > *Note: psql compiles with bcc after the patch, but it does not run very well.
> > >
> >
> > Define "does not run very well" :-)
>
> See:
>
>     http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2007-01/msg00003.php
>

*blinks*

Can we be sure that a BCC build libpq is even safe to use given the
problems seen when using psql?

Gavin