Re: Postgresql for cygwin - 3rd

On 01/25/2014 01:23 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> I have now tested the central part of the proposed changes on both old 
> and new Cygwin installations, and they appear to work.
>
> I'm going to commit them and backpatch back to 9.0, which is where we 
> currently have buildfarm coverage (and 8.4 will be at EOL in a few 
> months anyway). That will take care of your rebase issue.


That part is done. Reliance on dllwrap is a thing of the past.


>
> That leaves several issues to be handled:
>
>  * LDAP libraries - the way you have proposed surely isn't right. What
>    we want is something more like this in the Makefile.global.in:
>        ifeq ($(PORTNAME), cygwin)
>        libpq_pgport += $(LDAP_LIBS_FE)
>        endif


Unless someone comes up with a better answer than this I'm going to 
commit it too.


>  * isolation tests fail with an indefinite hang on newer Cygwin
>  * prepared_xacts test fails with an indefinite hang on newer Cygwin if
>    run in parallel with other tests
>  * tsearch tests fail on non-C locale (or at least on en_US.utf8). It
>    turns out this is actually an old bug, and can be reproduced on my
>    old Cygwin instance. I wonder if it's caused by faulty locale files?
>

And these are where we need help, especially from the Cygwin community. 
The fact that things that work on older Cygwins now fail is annoying.

cheers

andrew