Re: Complier warnings on mingw gcc 4.5.0

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>, Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-12-15T19:22:51Z
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  1. Make the win32 putenv() override update *all* present versions of the

  2. Remove the use of the pg_auth flat file for client authentication.


On 12/15/2010 02:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  writes:
>> And the attached hack allowed "make check" to succeed.
>> I think the logic in tcop/postgres.c and postmaster/postmaster.c is
>> probably wrong. If we are using our getopt/getopt_long, we want to be
>> setting optreset, whether or not configure found one in the system
>> libraries.
> Yeah, that's what I suggested earlier; but if your build *wasn't* using
> our versions before, we're still no closer to understanding why it was
> failing then.  Another small problem is that a close inspection of our
> getopt.c says that it does reset "place" to point at a constant before
> returning -1, in every path except the "--" case which I doubt is being
> invoked.  So my idea that we were clobbering argv underneath it doesn't
> seem to hold up.  I'm still feeling that we don't understand what's
> happening.
>
> 			

Sure we are closer to understanding it. It seems quite clear to me that 
Mingw's getopt, which we have been using, has changed between versions, 
as indicated by the fact that on my mingw optreset is not found, but on 
narwhal it is found.

I haven't looked into our getopt.

cheers

andrew