Re: MinGW patch

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Oh.  Any ideas on how to handle that?  The other reference uses:
> >
> >     override CPPFLAGS+="-I$(top_srcdir)/src/include/port/win32"
> >
> > but top_srcdir isn't defined at this point.
>
> If you put this in the port makefile, then it should work.

The problem is that the 'configure' doesn't find the include files
during its tests.

> > This is there only so 'configure' sees those include files.  Does that
> > relate to building outside the tree?
>
> Why does configure need to see those files?  Surely you don't need
> configure to test the capabilities of our own source tree?

As Tom mentioned, it doesn't find things like sys/socket.h, which we
have added to src/include/port/win32/.  This was done to elimintate
#ifdef of the include files that are Win32-specific.

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