| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: MAXIMUM_ALIGNOF on Windows-32 |
| Date: | 2007-07-23 15:39:01 |
| Message-ID: | 46A4CB95.1080105@dunslane.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I see though that the comment in pg_config.h.win32 claims it was derived
>>> from mechanically-generated configure output, so unless that's lying
>>> it should be OK already.
>>>
>
>
>> It's not - it started out as a copy of the output of ./configure on mingw.
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> "Started out as"? Good luck keeping it in sync, if it's not
> mechanically created.
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>
>
ISTM this is symptomatic of the MSVC build system problems. I understand
why Dave and Magnus want to use it, but essentially it is breaking one
of the original requirements of our building on Windows at all, namely
that we use a unified build tool chain. It's a thousand pities.
cheers
andrew
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