Re: Build error

Magnus Hagander wrote:

>>Hello,
>>
>>
>>I am trying to build the latest nightly snapshot on
>>windows2000, and I'm getting the following error:
>>
>>
>>make[2]: Entering directory
>>`/d/work/pgsql/postgresql-snapshot/src/port'
>>[..snip..]
>>
>>I believe there is something wrong with mingw or msys, and not with
>>the pgsql sources.    Do you have any idea about what could
>>be the problem ?
>>
>>
>
>This looks like the "failed to fake-symlink using copy" error. Try
>running configure again (the command that ended up complaining about
>pg_config_os.h). If that doesn't work, try it once more. If it still
>doesn't work, then it's something else :-)
>
>
>

Is there any workaround for this? Maybe we could look at having
configure loop a few times trying to make the (fake) symlink - I know
it's hackish, but if it works ...

cheers

andrew