Re: pg_config --pgxs on Win32

-----Original Message-----
From: Martijn van Oosterhout [mailto:kleptog(at)svana(dot)org]
Sent: Thu 10/13/2005 8:08 PM
To: Tom Lane
Cc: Thomas Hallgren; Dave Page; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_config --pgxs on Win32

> Besides, Windows has accepted the forward slash as directory seperator
> all the way since DOS 2.0 when directories were introduced. The only
> reason they sometimes don't work as expected is because it's also the
> option indicator :(.
>
> Presumably things break when commands read /path as an option rather
> than a path. Hopefully they're smart enough to realize c:/path does not
> actually contain an option but is just a path. Presumably that's
> fixable some other way?

When we first discussed this I posted a very simple example 'cd /' which does absolutely nothing unlike 'cd \' or 'cd \\' which work as expected, quite possibly for the reason you suggest. Although the / is accepted, I don't believe it can be called reliable as it obviously doesn't work in all situations.

Regardless, the msys/gmake case is definately the most important to support, but I do think we should note in the docs that pg_config may not work well in non-msys/cygwin environments.

Regards, dave.