Re: stat() vs cygwin

If we have no plan to apply this patch, do we need to remove Cygwin as a
supported platform?

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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Where are we on this? The patch was not acceptable for several reasons;
> for one:
>
> > And finally:
> > -????????????VALUE?"OriginalFilename",?"libpq.dll\0"
> > +????????????VALUE?"OriginalFilename",?"cygpq.dll\0"
> >
> > This obviously has to be done another way, because that change will
> > affect the win32 platform as well...
>
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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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