Re: Cygwin - make check broken

er that would be this patch.

Andrew Dunstan wrote:

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> Tom Lane wrote:
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>> "Rocco Altier" <RoccoA@Routescape.com> writes:
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>>> It looks like when we changed regress/GNUmakefile to pull rules from
>>> Makefile.shlib, cygwin got broken in the process.
>>> ...
>>> I don't know enough about the rest of the way the cygwin port is put
>>> together, but it seems that the other platforms all have
>>> shlib=lib$(NAME)...
>>>
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>> Seems to me that defining shlib that way for Cygwin too would be a
>> reasonable answer, but I'm not sure if there will be any side-effects.
>> Can someone try it?
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> The attached patch worked for me. The second part should not be 
> applied - I simply include it to illustrate the hack (taken from a 
> recent clue on the Cygwin mailing list) that I found necessary to get 
> around brokenness on the latest release of Cygwin. The good news is 
> that they do seem to be trying to find out what broke and fix it.
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