Re: Building psql.exe using the free Borland compiler

alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com wrote:
>...
> but ISTM ljb is the one who needs to find what works ...

Here's my Makefile for testing this:
===========================
all: f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6
f1:
echo \#define SYSCONFDIR "" > f1
f2:
echo \#define SYSCONFDIR \"\" > f2
f3:
echo "#define SYSCONFDIR \"\"" > f3
f4:
echo '\#define SYSCONFDIR ""' > f4
f5:
echo '#define SYSCONFDIR ""' > f5
f6:
echo #define SYSCONFDIR "" > f6
===========================
I'm using make from "Borland C++ 5.5.1 for Win32" on Windows 2000.
Here are the results for the first 4 cases:
f1: #define SYSCONFDIR ""
f2: #define SYSCONFDIR \"\"
f3: "#define SYSCONFDIR \"\""
f4: '#define SYSCONFDIR ""'

Cases 'f5' and 'f6' don't produce output files at all.

So it seems to me that the patch to bcc32.mak should be reverted (as shown
below), but that depends on what the original poster (Mark Morgan Lloyd)
says. If he says the patch is needed, we should figure out why we get
different results.

--- src/interfaces/libpq/bcc32.mak.orig 2006-04-24 00:03:42.000000000 -0400
+++ src/interfaces/libpq/bcc32.mak 2006-05-30 19:40:31.000000000 -0400
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@

# Have to use \# so # isn't treated as a comment, but MSVC doesn't like this
pg_config_paths.h: bcc32.mak
- echo \#define SYSCONFDIR \"\" > pg_config_paths.h
+ echo \#define SYSCONFDIR "" > pg_config_paths.h

"$(OUTDIR)" :
@if not exist "$(OUTDIR)/$(NULL)" mkdir "$(OUTDIR)"