Re: HEAD build failure on win32 mingw

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Friday 21 November 2008 23:33:47 Tom Lane wrote:
> > Historically the man.tar.gz files were created manually because there
> > were some manual fixups needed to the generated man files.  I'm not sure
> > what vestiges of that still remain --- Peter's generally been the one to
> > take care of it.  But we definitely aren't shipping a freshly generated
> > copy in the nightly snapshot right now.
> 
> I don't actually know how the snapshots are built, so I don't know how to fix 
> it.

According to Stefan Kaltenbrunner, who took the time to delve into
developer.pg.org guts, the script used to generate the snapshots looks
like this

/usr/bin/cvs -q export -rREL8_3_STABLE pgsql
cd pgsql
./configure
cd doc/src
gmake postgres.tar.gz
mv postgres.tar.gz ..
gmake postgres.tar.gz
mv postgres.tar.gz ..
gmake man.tar.gz
mv man.tar.gz ..
cd sgml
gmake HISTORY INSTALL
mv -f HISTORY INSTALL ../../..
cd ../../..
gmake VERSION=snapshot dist
gmake maintainer-clean

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