Thread: CVS head broken on win32?

I'm trying to compile CVS HEAD on Win32.

./configure --enable-integer-datetimes
make
...
It ends with:

postmaster/SUBSYS.o(.text+0x9d7):fork_process.c: undefined reference to 
`fork'

gcc --version and uname -a
gcc.exe (GCC) 3.4.1 (mingw special)
MINGW32_NT-5.1 THHALHOME3 1.0.11(0.46/3/2) 2004-03-30 07:29 i686 unknown

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren

Thomas Hallgren <thhal@mailblocks.com> writes:
> I'm trying to compile CVS HEAD on Win32.
> postmaster/SUBSYS.o(.text+0x9d7):fork_process.c: undefined reference to 
> `fork'

Um.  Shouldn't that whole file be #ifndef EXEC_BACKEND?
        regards, tom lane

Tom Lane wrote:
> Um.  Shouldn't that whole file be #ifndef EXEC_BACKEND?

Woops, sorry about that.

We can't make the file #ifndef EXEC_BACKEND since fork_process() is used
by the Unix implementation of internal_forkexec(), but #ifndef WIN32
should work. I've applied the attached patch to HEAD.

-Neil
Index: src/backend/postmaster/fork_process.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/lib/cvs/pgsql/src/backend/postmaster/fork_process.c,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -c -r1.2 fork_process.c
*** src/backend/postmaster/fork_process.c    13 Mar 2005 23:27:38 -0000    1.2
--- src/backend/postmaster/fork_process.c    15 Mar 2005 23:53:32 -0000
***************
*** 16,21 ****
--- 16,22 ----
  #include <sys/time.h>
  #include <unistd.h>

+ #ifndef WIN32
  /*
   * Wrapper for fork(). Return values are the same as those for fork():
   * -1 if the fork failed, 0 in the child process, and the PID of the
***************
*** 80,82 ****
--- 81,84 ----

      return result;
  }
+ #endif /* ! WIN32 */