Re: stat() vs cygwin

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Reini Urban <rurban(at)x-ray(dot)at>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: stat() vs cygwin
Date: 2008-08-16 03:43:42
Message-ID: 200808160343.m7G3hgm04388@momjian.us
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Where are we on this patch?

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Reini Urban wrote:
> Dave Page schrieb:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> >> Yes.
> >>
> >> As in the cygwin build does build. Nobody really has verified if the fix
> >> is needed there. But frankly, if you are likely to care about the
> >> effects of this issue, you won't be running cygwin anyway. It's mostly a
> >> dead platform for postgresql anyway, AFAICS we only keep it building for
> >> legacy compatibility. Once it starts taking lots of resources to keep
> >> building (which it doesn't now), I think we should just drop it instead...
>
> "Dead" is interesting. We see a lot of cygwin users having postgresql
> installed.
>
> > FWIW, the most recent packages from Cygwin themselves are 8.2.5.
>
> Update: 8.2.9 is latest.
> 8.3.x not because the new SSPI doesn't work yet.
>
> currently failing is: --with-gssapi --with-krb5 --with-tcl --with-java
> --with-ossp-uuid --with-ldap
> (but ldap works okay with 8.2.9)
>
> currently testing is: --enable-nls --with-CXX --with-openssl --with-perl
> --with-python --with-libxml --with-libxslt
>
> current cygwin patch in testing is attached.
> --
> Reini Urban
> postgresql cygwin maintainer
>

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