From: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
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To: | Jason Tishler <jason(at)tishler(dot)net> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PG Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: "make check" improvement for cygwin |
Date: | 2003-11-10 14:18:14 |
Message-ID: | 3FAF9E26.8010001@familyhealth.com.au |
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> The phrase "Cygwin set of DLLs" is more accurate. Actually, the phrase
> "appropriate subset of Cygwin DLLs" is even better.
Ok.
>>>! 2. Proceed through the Cygwin install wizard. Choose 'Install from
>>>! Internet', specify a Local Package Directory and choose a mirror
>>>! site that's close to you. Leave everything else as-is.
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> The default will not work for all users.
Why not? I tried it on a couple of machines... I particularly noted
that it now installs cygipc by default..
>>>! 3a. Start ipc-daemon2 for shared memory support. Use
>>>! "net start ipc-daemon2", if you want ipc-daemon2 installed
>>>! as a service; otherwise, use "ipc-daemon2 &". This program
>>>! needs to be running anytime you start the PostgreSQL server
>>>! (postmaster) or initialize a database (initdb).
>
>
> The above is missing the "ipc-daemon2 --install-as-service" step.
>
> You may want to add installing postmaster as a service too.
Can you please specify the exact set of steps to make this work
perfectly - I've never managed it myself... I managed to find your docs
on it on the Net once, but I never got it working 100%
>>>! There are some points that are only relevant if you are building Cygwin
>>>! PostgreSQL from source:
>>>!
>>>! 1. Set your path to use the Cygwin bin directory before the Windows
>>>! utilities. Cygwin sort must be used in preference to Windows sort.exe.
>
>
> Is the above needed during runtime too?
Not on any machine I've installed on. I just left those steps in
because they were in the old docs.
> Sorry for being picky and not supplying a patch. Nevertheless, I
> appreciate you updating the README.
That's cool. I would appreciate your tips on installing as a service,
however.
Chris
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