Re: Win32 native port

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
Cc: Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Joerg Hessdoerfer <Joerg(dot)Hessdoerfer(at)sea-gmbh(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Win32 native port
Date: 2003-09-04 18:25:33
Message-ID: 200309041825.h84IPXM06171@candle.pha.pa.us
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Doug McNaught wrote:
> "Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com> writes:
>
> > Cygwin requires a license for commercial use.
>
> "Use" in the sense of distributing applications linked against it,
> yes.
>
> In this case I don't think it's a problem. The output of 'flex' and
> 'bison' is not required to be GPL (there is a specific exception in
> the Bison license for this), and we're not distributing any Cygwin
> code, or any binaries linked with it, merely using it to generate
> parts of the PG source tree.

As you can see from the new "Compiling" web page, I just normally
compile under Unix, distclean, then Win32 compile via Samba.

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