Re: [INTERFACES] Re: your mail

Hello all,

I'm the guy trying to build the 6.5.1 port for OpenBSD. I agree there is a
limited target audience for this port, but that audience won't get any
bigger if nobody does anything about it. Like Diana, I chose my OS first
and my database engine second. However, my choice of OS shouldn't dictate
that I must settle for second-best applications, hence the effort to port
pgsql and its various components.

I think I played by The Rules[TM] of freenix software with my posts to the
ports mailing list: well researched to the limits of my abilities, showing
what and where I thought the problem was, and asking specific questions.
Marc and Tom's replies make me sound like all I did was whine that "it
doesn't work". To be fair to the PostgreSQL developer team, Bruce Momjian
was very helpful in orienting me to the way the project has configured the
builds and the OS dependencies with Autoconf and Gmake. I posted first in
the PostgreSQL lists because I hoped the group would be more focused. I
got _no_ reply, not even hints (I think I got buried in the flurry of
64-bit issues). Maybe I should have been more pushy, but that's history
now. With both specific problems, a repost to the OpenBSD misc list
brought the answer from experienced OpenBSD developers.

I have a preliminary port of PostgreSQL that optionally builds pgaccess
and libpgsqlodbc.so. I'm now working on making sure the regression tests
perform correctly (at least on i386) and that the man pages get built and
installed correctly (the old OpenBSD port didn't make them). When it's
ready, I will submit the entire package to the OpenBSD ports maintainers.
The preliminary version is available from me directly.

Ciao
--Louis <louis(at)bertrandtech(dot)on(dot)ca>

Louis Bertrand http://www.bertrandtech.on.ca
Bertrand Technical Services, Bowmanville, ON, Canada

OpenBSD: Secure by default. http://www.openbsd.org/

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Tom Lane wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > Basically, if you are non-Linux in this world nowadays, you have to learn
> > to be a little more pushy to get your point across :(
>
> Or, go and do it yourself. I think the real problem here is that the
> people who use OpenBSD *and* ODBC *and* Postgres probably form a pretty
> small group. Sitting back and waiting for someone else to fix problems
> seen only (?) in that combination may be a long wait. Roll up your
> sleeves and help make it better, instead.
>
> regards, tom lane
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