Tom Lane wrote:
I don't personally have a problem with just forcing use of our own erand48 on Cygwin; it's not a lot of code and it would make the behavior of that build more like the MSVC build. But it's curious that such a simple library function is seemingly broken on Cygwin ... especially when their random() and srandom() evidently work.
It appears on Googling a bit that the erand48() is buggy in that it requires the seed to have been initialized with srand48() or it will constantly return 0.0.
So I think just forcing use of ours is the safe way to go. It might have been fixed since I installed Cygwin, although I can't find a reference to that, and I don't feel like triangulating it anyway.
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