Re: allow running parts of src/tools/msvc/ under not Windows

Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2020-02-13 16:36, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, I'm wondering exactly how this helps. IME the typical sort of
>> breakage is "the MSVC build doesn't know that file X needs to be
>> included when building Y". It seems like just building the project
>> files will teach one nothing about that type of omission.

> The main benefit is that if you make "blind" edits in the Perl files,
> you can verify them easily, first by seeing that the Perl code runs,
> second, depending on the circumstances, by diffing the created project
> files. Another is that if you do some nontrivial surgery in makefiles,
> you can check whether the Perl code can still process them. So the
> benefit is mainly that you can iterate faster when working on build
> system related things. You still need to do a full test on Windows at
> the conclusion, but then hopefully with a better chance of success.

I see. No objection then.

regards, tom lane