| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> |
| Subject: | Re: HEAD build failure on win32 mingw |
| Date: | 2008-11-22 11:05:19 |
| Message-ID: | 200811221305.20951.peter_e@gmx.net |
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On Friday 21 November 2008 23:33:47 Tom Lane wrote:
> Historically the man.tar.gz files were created manually because there
> were some manual fixups needed to the generated man files. I'm not sure
> what vestiges of that still remain --- Peter's generally been the one to
> take care of it. But we definitely aren't shipping a freshly generated
> copy in the nightly snapshot right now.
I don't actually know how the snapshots are built, so I don't know how to fix
it.
> If we do have a fully automated process now, it's probably fair to ask
> why there's an internal tarball involved at all, rather than just
> shipping the built man1/ and man7/ subdirectories (and likewise for the
> html). Double compression of that data isn't going to be helpful.
Fixing all this is definitely my plan for 8.4, but we are not there yet.
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