Re: [PATCH] allow src/tools/msvc/clean.bat script to be called from the root of the source tree

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo(dot)santamaria(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow src/tools/msvc/clean.bat script to be called from the root of the source tree
Date: 2022-01-18 21:17:26
Message-ID: ddb2a03b-d192-88ad-03d0-5b8c6559ae44@dunslane.net
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On 1/18/22 15:08, Juan José Santamaría Flecha wrote:
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>
>
> > By the way, are pgbison.bat and pgflex.bat directly called anywhere?
>
> Not to my knowledge. One of the things that's annoying about them is
> that the processor names are hardcoded, so if you install winflexbison
> as I usually do you have to rename the executables (or rename the
> chocolatey shims) or the scripts won't work.
>
> We could use those batches to get to the hardcoded name, but that
> would probably be as annoying as renaming. If those batches serve no
> purpose right now, it should be fine to remove them from the tree. I
> use the executables from a MinGW installation, and they keep their
> actual name.
>

OK, but I don't think we should require installation of MinGW for an
MSVC build.

cheers

andrew

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