Re: Small suggestion on build script

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Small suggestion on build script
Date: 2004-04-07 05:55:02
Message-ID: 6003.1081317302@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com> writes:
> I would like to suggest changing the symlinks to copy commands:

That would cause make to fail to handle update dependencies on the
linked files.

> The reason is that under Mingw, I get random failures with the symlinks

This is the worst sort of Microsoft imperialism that I hoped we'd not be
succumbing to by having a Windows port :-(. "If it doesn't work on
Windows then the rest of you have to give up functionality." How about
filing a bug report against the Mingw breakage, instead of expecting us
to try to work around it?

regards, tom lane

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