Re: msvc and vista fun

Andrei Kovalevski wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Dave Page wrote:
>>> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>> On a somewhat related note, I have had spectacular lack of success 
>>>> in getting either MSVC or MinGW builds to work on Vista - so much 
>>>> so that I have currently abandoned my attempts on that platform and 
>>>> I resorted to resuscitating an old XP box for testing. Following 
>>>> some advice from Magnus, I added ACLs to the build root for both an 
>>>> admin and a non-admin user (cacls buildroot /E /T /G AdminUser:C 
>>>> and similarly for a non-admin user) . I can build as the admin user 
>>>> but when I come to run initdb it fails, complaining that it can't 
>>>> find the postgres executable. 
>>> Yeah, I ran into that problem as well. I'll look at my Vista box 
>>> when I'm in the office tomorrow and see if I can figure out what 
>>> hack fixed it for me.
>>
>> I have never heard back on this, AFAIK. If anyone has instructions on 
>> how to manage this please let me know. My current status with 
>> MSVC/vista is still that I can build but not run as an admin user, 
>> and run but not build as a non-admin user. Bleah.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> andrew
> Described situation looks like you are trying to run initdb under 
> Admin account. This will happen even if currently logged user in not 
> admin, but initdb has property 'run as administrator' set or you are 
> trying to run it under some file commander which is running in admin 
> mode.
>
>


No it doesn't. Please read again. As a non-admin user I *can* run. I 
just can't build. As an admin user I can build, but I can't run (and I 
should be able to run).

cheers

andrew