Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make S_IRGRP etc available in mingw builds as well as MSVC.

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 19:54, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> On 12/12/2010 01:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> (Hm, I wonder whether BCC defines them either...)
>
>> Is anyone building the client stuff with BCC any more? I don't recall
>> having heard of anyone doing so for quite some years.
>
> It's a fair question.  We could clean up some of these messy ifdefs
> if we dropped support for that combination.  I assume that an MSVC-built
> libpq.dll would still work for Borland users, no?

The dynamic one, yes. Static linked one, no.

IIRC I suggest desupporting it every now and then and get voted down
;) And quite often we have someone showing up around the x.y.2 release
to clean it up so it works again...

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