Re: initdb failure - postgres hangs with 100% CPU

Steve,

In the future, please keep your replies to the list(s).

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:04:02PM -0700, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
> [Steve Jorgensen] Yes, that's what I meant. After much searching, I had
> found your untested tarball previously. I tested it somewhat, by the way,
> and it functions with the native Windows version of pgAccess, though I
> haven't worked it very hard.

I thought that they would work. Thanks for testing them.

> I would like to learn to fish, though rather
> than just have the fish so I can make my own libpq.dll for any new version
> of PostgreSQL when the source is released.

I this case fishing is easy but expensive. If you install MSVS 6.0,
then all you need to do is:

$ nmake -f win32.mak

> I tried just configuring with a
> target of i586-pc-win32, then running make in the libpq directory - I had
> no errors, but only got pq.dll, not libpq.dll. I don't even know what
> pq.dll is.

You just did the configure for building under Cygwin. pq.dll is the
Cygwin version of libpq.dll.

> By "using Cygwin/gcc" do you mean Cygwin's gcc -mno-cygwin or Mingw
> mode? If so, then it should be possible but I don't know of anyone who
> has done it yet.
>
> [Steve Jorgensen] Yes, that's what I meant. Thanks for your reply.

I presume that you saw the recent activity regarding the above. Why don't
you give Christof's patches a shot?

Jason

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