Current autoconf system not working on Windows at all, what we talk about? On Wed, 18 Apr 2018, 23:57 Robert Haas, <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 4:13 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > I'd not advocate for this solely based on the age of autoconf. But the > > separate windows buildsystem which makes it very hard to build > > extensions separately is a good reason on its own. As is the fact that > > recursive make as we're using it has significant issues. Both of those > > would be avoided by using cmake or such. > > How much of the pain building extensions on Windows comes from our > build system and how much of it comes from the fact that it's Windows? > My guess would have been that the latter is by far the bigger issue, > but maybe I'm wrong. > > There is really nothing keeping us from removing or reducing the use > of recursive make without switching to cmake. And it's probably not > even that much work. > > -- > Robert Haas > EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company > >
