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

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: src/interfaces/libpq shipping nmake-related Makefiles
Date: 2017-04-07 04:07:59
Message-ID: CAB7nPqTawTWnT=BC6UwqU6DN1AsRaf2cLNzN0EKTtrFzkHrt8w@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> 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. The core argument for bcc32.mak,
> I think, is that we never did support building the server with Borland C
> ... but there's no evidence that people are still building libpq with it
> either.

Indeed. Those recent reports indicate that removing win32.c would be a
bad move. So what about nuking bcc32.mak but updating win32.mak?
--
Michael
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