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Re: improved parallel make support

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-11-11T16:51:22Z
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On 11/11/2010 11:43 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>
>> Thanks - installed.
>>
>>> As a matter of policy, I do not want to drop support for a FOSS 
>>> build tool
>>> chain on Windows if at all avoidable.
>>
>> Nor I, however I only have limited time to dedicate to that goal.
>
> One thing to think about is that since PostGIS uses MingW/PGXS on 
> Windows, we use MingW builds in order to generate the Makefiles we 
> need (there is no native MSVC build for Windows). Not being able to do 
> this would cause us great inconvenience :(
>
>
>

Interesting. Doesn't EDB's PostgresPlus package include PostGIS, and 
isn't its Windows version build with MSVC?

cheers

andrew