| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: compiler warnings on the buildfarm |
| Date: | 2007-07-12 23:15:41 |
| Message-ID: | 13577.1184282141@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Somebody needs to figure out whether we are supposed to be using
>> pgsymlink on Cygwin.
> According to port.h:
> * Cygwin has its own symlinks which work on Win95/98/ME where
> * junction points don't, so use it instead. We have no way of
> * knowing what type of system Cygwin binaries will be run on.
> So it looks like we should not be using pgsymlink() on Cygwin, unless we
> declare that these platforms under Cygwin are no longer supported.
Fair enough; Cygwin is kind of a legacy port at this point anyway, so
we shouldn't be doing anything to reduce its backwards compatibility.
I'll fix dirmod.c to match port.h.
regards, tom lane
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