Re: Windows on SuSE? 7.4

From: elein <elein(at)norcov(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: elein <elein(at)norcov(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Windows on SuSE? 7.4
Date: 2003-08-11 17:44:47
Message-ID: 20030811104447.G2396@cookie
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Yes, I actually have a libwsock32 because my
system has wine on it. Wine is a windows
emulator.

So the assumption that any system with that
file is a windows system will break on
systems with windows emulators.

It sounds like Joe's guess on this was right.

--elein

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:29:19PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> elein <elein(at)norcov(dot)com> writes:
> > configure knows it is a linux box.
> > Should it be trying to link to libwsock32.so
> > or not? If this is a legitimate link, then
> > the problem is different than if it is trying
> > to link it in erroneously.
>
> configure is unconditionally including libwsock32 if it can find one.
> AFAICT from the CVS logs, this was only expected to happen on win32
> (Bruce, that was your commit, configure.in v1.250; please confirm).
> So it would probably make sense to not look for libwsock32 unless
> PORTNAME is "win32".
>
> I take it you actually have a libwsock32? What's it supposed to do?
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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