From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Louis Bertrand <louis(at)bertrandtech(dot)on(dot)ca> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Diana Eichert <deichert(at)wrench(dot)com>, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [INTERFACES] Re: your mail |
Date: | 1999-08-02 20:52:18 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.10.9908021749360.401-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Louis Bertrand wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm the guy trying to build the 6.5.1 port for OpenBSD. I agree there is a
> limited target audience for this port, but that audience won't get any
> bigger if nobody does anything about it. Like Diana, I chose my OS first
> and my database engine second. However, my choice of OS shouldn't dictate
> that I must settle for second-best applications, hence the effort to port
> pgsql and its various components.
>
> I think I played by The Rules[TM] of freenix software with my posts to the
> ports mailing list: well researched to the limits of my abilities, showing
> what and where I thought the problem was, and asking specific questions.
> Marc and Tom's replies make me sound like all I did was whine that "it
Marc who?? unless I black'd out the episode, this is the first I've read
about it...*raised eyebrow* And if I gave the impression that I thought
you were whining, I do apologize, as it was not my intention to do so...
> Maybe I should have been more pushy, but that's history
> now. With both specific problems, a repost to the OpenBSD misc list
> brought the answer from experienced OpenBSD developers.
Just curious, but what turned out to be the problem, and is it something
we can/should change in the source tree to prevent it in the future?
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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