From: | Reini Urban <rurban(at)x-ray(dot)at> |
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To: | michael(dot)schwartz(at)carat(dot)com |
Cc: | pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: instructions are useful, but lacking |
Date: | 2004-10-29 19:04:41 |
Message-ID: | 41829449.9040404@x-ray.at |
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michael(dot)schwartz(at)carat(dot)com schrieb:
> Just read the cygwin/postgresql install instructions, located at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/text/FAQ_CYGWIN .
>
> These were very useful, but seemingly incomplete. After some frustration
> followed by googling, we found the right answers here:
> http://forums.devshed.com/archive/t-162095
>
> Basically before you run /usr/sbin/cygserver, you need to:
> a) set CYGWIN = server environment variable
> b) run cygserver-config
>
> and then continue your instructions with 3a) on the above referenced FAQ
> page.
>
> Thanks for this wonderful tool, and making it work with CYGWIN. Its
> presence has been extremely useful for our development efforts.
As the cygwin postgres docs say the FAQ_CYGWIN is hopelessly outdated.
(though it got better lately)
less /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgres*.README
are the official cygwin instructions. on the cygwin side, not upstream.
--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
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