Re: CVS HEAD busted on Windows?

Dave Page wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org 
>>[mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
>>Sent: 20 June 2006 00:02
>>To: Peter Eisentraut; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
>>Subject: [HACKERS] CVS HEAD busted on Windows?
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>>I notice buildfarm member snake is unhappy:
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>>The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the
>>same directory as 
>>"C:/msys/1.0/local/build-farm/HEAD/pgsql.696/src/test/regress/
>>tmp_check/install/usr/local/build-farm/HEAD/inst/bin/initdb.exe".
>>Check your installation.
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>>I'm betting Peter's recent patch to merge postmaster and 
>>postgres missed
>>some little thing or other ...
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>Yeah, I had guessed at that, but as the breakage coincided with a 'make
>check' hang and a buildfarm script upgrade I was waiting until after
>tonights run (following a cleanup yesterday) before reporting.
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>What I'm seeing this morning is another hang in 'make check'. After
>killing it off, the status can be seen at:
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>http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=snake&dt=2006-06-20%20
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1. it's nothing to do with upgrading - I saw this also and on a machine 
that hasn't upgraded the buildfarm script.

2. It looks like you got past initdb, so Tom's theory about that is 
looking unlikely.

cheers

andrew