Re: win32 build and test issues

This wasn't posted with a view to application. More a progress report.

Claudio has submitted a patch dealing with part of it.

I will look into the configure.in question in due course.

cheers

andrew

Bruce Momjian said:
>
> I can apply the last part of this patch, but we can't patch configure,
> only configure.in. Can you think of a way to patch that instead?
>
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>
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> Below are a couple of diffs.
>>
>> The first is the fix I made in configure - on my W2K machine with the
>> current MinGW/MSys I was getting the previously reported symlink
>> problem every time. With the looping patch (yes I *know* it's ugly,
>> and we have to get to the root of the problem, but I wanted to get
>> past it for now) it never happened, and builds worked. In any case we
>> should use something like the last couple of lines at least, to
>> *show* something went wrong. As we have it now we say we are doing
>> something and not testing for failure.
>>
>> The second allows "make check" to proceed to almost the end - you
>> still need to use the task manager to shut things down.
>>
>> The regression tests themselves seem to fail for the most part in
>> every configuration I have tried. The problem seems to be mostly
>> buffering issues - error messages appear out of order from what is
>> expected. I have not made sure what passes if we ignore that issue.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> andrew
>>
>>
>>
>> Index: configure
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/configure,v
>> retrieving revision 1.351
>> diff -c -w -r1.351 configure
>> *** configure 27 Apr 2004 20:09:27 -0000 1.351
>> --- configure 29 Apr 2004 20:17:06 -0000
>> ***************
>> *** 19141,19151 ****
>> --- 19141,19160 ----
>> esac
>>
>> # Make a symlink if possible; otherwise try a hard link.
>> + for linktry in 1 2 3 4 5; do
>> ln -s $ac_rel_source $ac_dest 2>/dev/null ||
>> ln $srcdir/$ac_source $ac_dest ||
>> { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: cannot link $ac_dest to
>> $srcdir/$ac_source" >&5
>> echo "$as_me: error: cannot link $ac_dest to $srcdir/$ac_source"
>> >&2;}
>> { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
>> + test -e $ac_dest && break
>> + done
>> + test -e $ac_dest ||
>> + { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: failed to link $ac_dest to
>> $srcdir/$ac_source" + >&5
>> + echo "$as_me: error: failed to link $ac_dest to $srcdir/$ac_source"
>> >&2;} + { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
>> +
>> done
>> _ACEOF
>>
>> Index: src/test/regress/pg_regress.sh
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file:
>> /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/test/regress/pg_regress.sh,v
>> retrieving revision 1.38
>> diff -c -w -r1.38 pg_regress.sh
>> *** src/test/regress/pg_regress.sh 8 Jan 2004 20:04:41 -0000
>> 1.38 --- src/test/regress/pg_regress.sh 29 Apr 2004 20:17:07
>> -0000 ***************
>> *** 294,305 ****
>> if [ x"$temp_install" != x"" ]
>> then
>> if echo x"$temp_install" | grep -v '^x/' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
>> temp_install="`pwd`/$temp_install"
>> fi
>>
>> bindir=$temp_install/install/$bindir
>> libdir=$temp_install/install/$libdir
>> - pkglibdir=$temp_install/install/$pkglibdir
>> datadir=$temp_install/install/$datadir
>> PGDATA=$temp_install/data
>>
>> --- 294,313 ----
>> if [ x"$temp_install" != x"" ]
>> then
>> if echo x"$temp_install" | grep -v '^x/' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
>> + case $host_platform in
>> + *-*-mingw32*)
>> + pkglibdir="`pwd
>> -W`/$temp_install/install/$pkglibdir" +
>> temp_install="`pwd`/$temp_install"
>> + ;;
>> + *)
>> temp_install="`pwd`/$temp_install"
>> + pkglibdir=$temp_install/install/$pkglibdir
>> + ;;
>> + esac
>> fi
>>
>> bindir=$temp_install/install/$bindir
>> libdir=$temp_install/install/$libdir
>> datadir=$temp_install/install/$datadir
>> PGDATA=$temp_install/data
>>
>> ***************
>> *** 336,342 ****
>> # executables, not dlopen'ed ones)
>> # ----------
>> case $host_platform in
>> ! *-*-cygwin*)
>> PATH=$libdir:$PATH
>> export PATH
>> ;;
>> --- 344,350 ----
>> # executables, not dlopen'ed ones)
>> # ----------
>> case $host_platform in
>> ! *-*-cygwin* | *-*-mingw32*)
>> PATH=$libdir:$PATH
>> export PATH
>> ;;
>>
>>
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