Re: win32 build and test issues

Claudio Natoli said:
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>> The first is the fix I made in configure - on my W2K machine with the
>> current MinGW/MSys I was getting the previously reported symlink
>> problem every time. With the looping patch (yes I *know* it's ugly,
>> and we have to get to the root of the problem, but I wanted to get
>> past it for now) it never happened, and builds worked. In any case we
>> should use something like the last couple of lines at least, to
>> *show* something went wrong. As we have it now we say we are doing
>> something and not testing for failure.
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> FWIW, I agree. I'd rather have a few unfortunate lines in the configure
> code, than a few hundred (or more) questions from Win32 users asking
> why they can't build.
>

Yeah. I think we need either to do something like what I did or find a
better solution.

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>> The regression tests themselves seem to fail for the most
>> part in every configuration I have tried. The problem seems to be
>> mostly
> buffering
>> issues - error messages appear out of order from what is expected. I
>> have not made sure what passes if we ignore that issue.
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> It is a MingW problem. Appears like there is not much we can do about
> it. Refer to
> http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/win32.html for
> details on how to test outside of Ming.
>

I am not giving up on it yet. I have a couple of ideas I'm going to try.
Telling people they have to run the tests under cygwin is just horrible.

cheers

andrew