Re: mingw configure failure workaround

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: mingw configure failure workaround
Date: 2004-05-02 03:08:33
Message-ID: 200405020308.i4238XD07904@candle.pha.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >It's different because we know why we need that one: we understand the
> >cause of the behavior and we therefore can have some confidence that the
> >kluge will fix it (or not, as the case may be). I have zero confidence
> >in looping five times around an "ln" call.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Even if we don't do that can we *please* put in something that detects
> the error, and tells the user what they will have to do to fix it?
> Failing in a situation which we know we can detect and not telling the
> user is intolerable, IMNSHO.

Agreed. At a minium we have to throw an error and tell them to run it
again.

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