Re: rename() vs. link(); building from source

David P. Caldwell wrote:
> 
> I did find the /usr/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.2.README ... I was intrigued by
> the section "Source."  I figured that some combination of build.sh, etc.,
> would do it for me ... the file says PostgreSQL builds out of the box with a
> perl-related caveat and I wasn't going to build perl, so I was hopeful.  I
> was even more excited by:
> 
> See CYGWIN-PATCHES/build.sh in the source archive for my exact build
> recipe for configuring, making, and packaging this distribution.
> 
> However, try as I might, I can't figure out what that refers to.  I've
> looked under both the PostgreSQL source tree (thoroughly) and the Cygwin
> source tree (not as thoroughly), done net searches, and can't find any
> matches for "CYGWIN-PATCHES" ... so I'm stuck there for the moment.

If install the PostgreSQL source by way of the Cygwin installer, you should 
find the CYGWIN-PATCHES directory in a /usr/src/postgresql-7.2.1-1 directory

IIRC, all you have to do to build (assuming you have all other necessary 
cygwin packages installed - gcc, etc) is cd to the above mentioned directory 
and run: CYGWIN-PATCHES/build.sh 7.2.1 1

(those last 2 params are the version and port number, which the build.sh 
expects as arguments, I don't recall offhand exactly why, but things seemed to 
go smoother later on if I kept the same port number as what the -real- cygwin 
postgresql package was)

When I tried it (to do the unlink/rename change), I tweaked the build.sh line 
27 to remove --with-perl and --with-python from the configure args.  Other 
than that, it built out-of-the-box pretty much as advertised (and the 
recycling transaction logs problem went away in my case).

	Barry