Re: msvc and vista fun

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2007-06-25T15:06:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Dave Page wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> If I then
>>> switch to the non-admin user, it can run initdb just fine. However, 
>>> that user can't build, because it gets a mysterious failure from 
>>> mt.exe. MinGW is even worse - it says it can't run gcc because it 
>>> can't run cc1.exe (IIRC), so it fails at the configure stage! All of 
>>> this has cost me quite a few hours in the last week, with very 
>>> little to show for it.
>>
>> And that one...
>
> See http://aarongiles.com/?p=199 for more details, but the quick fix I 
> used was to add /mingw/libexec/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2 to the path in 
> /etc/profile.
>
>


That seems to have fixed it. But now of cousre I forgot that the latest 
version is broken w.r.t. gettimeofday ... *sigh*

cheers

andrew