Re: Cygwin vs "win32" in configure

On 03/15/2015 02:12 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2015-03-15 14:03:08 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Buildfarm member brolga seems unhappy with my commit 91f4a5a that
>> restricted port/dirmod.c to being built only on "Windows".  Evidently
>> we need to build it when $PORTNAME = "cygwin" as well, which is fine;
>> but I'm a bit astonished that none of the other stuff inserted in the
>> "# Win32 support" stanza beginning at configure.in line 1440 is needed
>> for cygwin builds.  Is that really correct, or am I misunderstanding
>> what's happening here?
> Those all sound like things that cygwin is going to emulate for us. I
> guess we could use more of those functions to reduce the difference, but
> I'm not sure it's worth it.
>


I think that's right.

cheers

andrew