Re: PostgreSQL from source using MinGW

Petr Jelinek wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>>
>>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_MINGW.html
>>>
>>
>> That information is not adequate in my experience, and needs to be 
>> expanded. See my previous email for more details.
>
>
> It is adequate for building sources downloaded from ftp (you don't 
> need bison, flex, DTK for this), but it's not adequate for building 
> sources from cvs.
>

Ah. OK. Arguably we should cover both ;-)

I think we should also tell people how about --without-readline and 
about installing zlib or using --without-zlib

cheers

andrew