Re: Win32 port patches submitted

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Postgres development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-01-26T03:07:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > I don't see a strong reason not
> > to stick with good old configure; make; make install.  You're already
> > requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require the full
> > shell environment.
> 
> Indeed.  I think the goal here is to have a port that *runs* in native
> Windows; but I see no reason not to require Cygwin for *building* it.

Agreed.  I don't mind Cygwin if we don't have licensing problems with
distributing a Win32 binary that used Cygwin to build.  I do have a
problem with MKS toolkit, which is a commerical purchase.  I would like
to avoid reliance on that, though Jan said he needed their bash.

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