| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql-server/src backend/bootstrap/Tag: backen ... |
| Date: | 2003-09-09 20:44:10 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0309092242060.1210-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Bruce Momjian writes:
> Well, the files are in there now --- I might as well just leave them so
> they don't have to go through that. This MinGW environment is much more
> limited than a Unix environment --- no bison, flex, cvs, or perl.
The whole MinGW thing is overhyped. Install Cygwin and specify gcc
-mno-cygwin when you compile. That gets you the same compilation
environment that MinGW provides, but you can use all the Unix tools.
> Once people are invested in the port, I think they will install those
> tools, but I like to make the getting-started easier.
Yeah, but if there is supposedly no cvs available in that environment,
what is the point of this exercise? They're going to have to download a
pre-cooked tarball anyway.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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