Bruce Momjian writes:
> Well, the files are in there now --- I might as well just leave them so
> they don't have to go through that. This MinGW environment is much more
> limited than a Unix environment --- no bison, flex, cvs, or perl.
The whole MinGW thing is overhyped. Install Cygwin and specify gcc
-mno-cygwin when you compile. That gets you the same compilation
environment that MinGW provides, but you can use all the Unix tools.
> Once people are invested in the port, I think they will install those
> tools, but I like to make the getting-started easier.
Yeah, but if there is supposedly no cvs available in that environment,
what is the point of this exercise? They're going to have to download a
pre-cooked tarball anyway.
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Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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