Re: buildfarm breakage

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 17:11, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> Here's a patch that "fixes" this. I put it locally for the radius
>> authentication for now, since we don't use this anywhere else. Should
>> we put this in /port/ somewhere, or is this good for now?
>
> How about dropping it in src/backend/port/win32/mingwcompat.c ?

Oh, meh. I had forgotten we had that file :-)

Thanks for the reminder, will verify tonight that it still works after
I do that.


> The advantage of putting it in src/port/ is that it would possibly
> help client-side code sometime in future.  But what seems more likely
> to happen is that the mingw people will fix their oversight, and
> then we'd be risking link conflicts, which will be harder to fix on
> the client side.  So I'm inclined to not go there as long as we
> don't actually need it on client side.  But putting mingw hacks
> in a mingw-specific place seems a good idea.

yeah, agreed.


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