Re: src/interfaces/libpq shipping nmake-related Makefiles

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: src/interfaces/libpq shipping nmake-related Makefiles
Date: 2017-04-07 04:06:13
Message-ID: 20170407040613.3tmq4l5ev52ul56n@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2017-04-07 00:01:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Still, it's not very clear why we need to cater for building just libpq
> rather than the whole distribution, and a user of win32.mak presumably
> has the option to do the latter.

I think the raison d'etre for that infrastructure primarily comes from
the times where windows wasn't supported for server builds?

+1 for yanking this out.

- Andres

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