Re: stat() vs cygwin

Where are we on this patch?

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Reini Urban wrote:
> Dave Page schrieb:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Magnus Hagander  wrote:
> >> Yes.
> >>
> >> As in the cygwin build does build. Nobody really has verified if the fix
> >> is needed there. But frankly, if you are likely to care about the
> >> effects of this issue, you won't be running cygwin anyway. It's mostly a
> >> dead platform for postgresql anyway, AFAICS we only keep it building for
> >> legacy compatibility. Once it starts taking lots of resources to keep
> >> building (which it doesn't now), I think we should just drop it instead...
> 
> "Dead" is interesting. We see a lot of cygwin users having postgresql 
> installed.
> 
> > FWIW, the most recent packages from Cygwin themselves are 8.2.5.
> 
> Update: 8.2.9 is latest.
> 8.3.x not because the new SSPI doesn't work yet.
> 
> currently failing is: --with-gssapi --with-krb5 --with-tcl --with-java 
> --with-ossp-uuid --with-ldap
> (but ldap works okay with 8.2.9)
> 
> currently testing is: --enable-nls --with-CXX --with-openssl --with-perl 
> --with-python --with-libxml --with-libxslt
> 
> current cygwin patch in testing is attached.
> -- 
> Reini Urban
> postgresql cygwin maintainer
> 


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