Re: mingw configure failure detection

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: mingw configure failure detection
Date: 2004-05-13 01:31:03
Message-ID: 200405130131.i4D1V3818266@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > Am Montag, 10. Mai 2004 09:17 schrieb Andrew Dunstan:
> >> It appears that Dann Corbit has filed a MinGW bug on this, with accurate
> >> problem description, but he received a less than stellar response. See
> >>
> >> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?
> >> func=detail&aid=931263&group_id=2435&atid=102435
>
> > I added a followup to this bug and he requests a minimal reproduceable
> > example. Can someone provide one?
>
> >From what we've been hearing, all you have to do is download current
> Postgres (snapshot tarball or CVS pull) and try "configure" a few times
> (with "make distclean" to clean up). That's perhaps not minimal but it
> should at least convince him the bug exists ...

I just installed the configure symlink test code that throws a warning
if the symlinks don't work, so it is even easier to test now. Just run
configure until it fails --- nothing to compile.

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