Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > >> Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >> > >>> Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> I'm confused. There is a Cygwin member of buildfarm, working quite > >>>> happily. Can you point me to the exact patch in question, please? I > >>>> thought we resolved the matter of stat() ages ago. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4865F707.6010702%40x-ray.at > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> That patch is NOT about $subject. In fact, if you read that whole thread > >> you will see here > >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00915.php that I > >> conducted a test on Cygwin and found it was not suffering from the > >> problem we fixed on WIN32. > >> > >> AFAICT Reini's patch is about fixing OpenSSL and possibly some other > >> options on Cygwin. It was rejected because it had other problems, but is > >> not indicative of a fundamental problem on Cygwin. There is no reason I > >> am aware of that we should declare Cygwin no longer supported, no matter > >> how much its continued existence apparently annoys a few people :-) . > >> > > > > Oh, good, thanks for clearing that up. So should we just document that > > OpenSSL doesn't work on Cygwin and call this item closed? > > > > > > This item should be closed. We should see if Reini can submit an > acceptable patch for OpenSSL.
I have documented that OpenSSL is not supported for Cygwin. -- Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
