Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Failures with windows port

Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>> Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
>>
>>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>
>>>>> http://www.hserus.net/~shridhar/regression.diffs.gz
>>>>> http://www.hserus.net/~shridhar/regression.out
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Uh, were did you get this snapshot?  Hold old was it?  These newline
>>>> problems were fixed perhaps 2 weeks ago.
>>>
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev/postgresql-snapshot.tar.gz
>>>
>>> It is timestamped at 6/7/2004, 8:09 AM.
>>>
>>> Anyways, I will install flex and bison and use CVS. I was just being
>>> lazy to opt for a snapshot..
>>
>>
>>
>> That is certainly new enough.  We added a MinGW workaround to fix a
>> problem with extra newlines coming from psql, but you might have a
>> configuration that doesn't need the workaround.
>>
>> Do you need this line in psql/print.c?
>>
>>     #ifndef __MINGW32__
>>         /* for some reason MinGW outputs an extra newline, so this
>> supresses it */
>>         fputc('\n', fout);
>>     #endif
>>
>> That might be the cause of your problem?  If you have it try removing
>> it and recompile.
>
>
> No it is not. A quick #if 0...#endif around it and recompile produced
> 87 failures out of 95 test, one being ignored.
>
> Leaving it for a full build as I am calling it a day. Will give it
> another  go tomorrow morning..
>

What you would need to test is not #ifdefing the whole thing out -
rather you would need to enable the fputc by removing the #ifndef and
#endif lines.

cheers

andrew