> This took me hours to find ...
>
> On my Windows box, CVS HEAD gets an execution failure on "initdb foo"
> but succeeds happily with "initdb -D foo".
>
> This is not true for REL8_1_STABLE, nor is it true for all
> Windows machines/environments, apparently, otherwise we would
> be seeing failures from the buildfarm member snake, since the
> buildfarm script does "initdb data".
>
> My suspicion is that this is some side effect of the
> restricted-exec patch, but I don't have time to dig further right now.
Um, so what error msg do you get when it's failing?
//Magnus