Re: Warning compiling pg_dump (MinGW, Windows XP)

Hello, Tom.

You wrote:

TL> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> 2011/1/13 Pavel Golub <pavel@microolap.com>:
>>> pg_dump.c: In function 'dumpSequence':
>>> pg_dump.c:11449:2: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format
>>> pg_dump.c:11449:2: warning: too many arguments for format

>> It seems like PGAC_FUNC_SNPRINTF_LONG_LONG_INT_FORMAT is getting the
>> wrong answer on your machine, though I'm not sure why.

TL> That configure check tests whether snprintf produces the right result at
TL> runtime.  It doesn't check whether the compiler will generate a warning
TL> about it.  It looks to me like Pavel has a compiler that is out of sync
TL> with his libc; which is a platform configuration mistake that he needs
TL> to fix.

The thing is that for this test I used a clean virtual machine under
WinXP with only one MinGW + MSYS installed.

TL> Another possibility is that configure chose to not use the system
TL> snprintf at all, in which case %lld is the correct syntax to use but gcc
TL> might well have some different expectation.  Without seeing the
TL> config.log results it's hard to be sure about that one; but in any case
TL> it's hard to credit that there are any modern machines where snprintf
TL> can't handle long long int, so this still suggests a platform problem.

config.log attached

TL>                         regards, tom lane



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