Re: Win32 port patches submitted

Bruce Momjian kirjutas P, 26.01.2003 kell 05:07:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > > I don't see a strong reason not
> > > to stick with good old configure; make; make install.  You're already
> > > requiring various Unix-like tools, so you might as well require the full
> > > shell environment.
> > 
> > Indeed.  I think the goal here is to have a port that *runs* in native
> > Windows; but I see no reason not to require Cygwin for *building* it.
> 
> Agreed.  I don't mind Cygwin if we don't have licensing problems with
> distributing a Win32 binary that used Cygwin to build.  I do have a
> problem with MKS toolkit, which is a commerical purchase.  I would like
> to avoid reliance on that, though Jan said he needed their bash.

IIRC mingw tools had win-native (cygwin-less) bash at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/

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Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>