> >>> We'll need a VC buildfarm member in place to catch us anytime we > >>> change the Makefiles in a way that the script doesn't understand. > >> > >> Not a problem - Snake has VC++ 6, 2003 and 2005 installed. > > > Y'know I say that, but thinking about it I imagine the buildfarm is > > tied well and truly into the GNU build system - running configure, > > make, regression tests etc. We'd need to talk Andrew into modifying > > the code to handle the different build procedure, and > figure out how > > to run the regression tests (prolly still need mingw for > that - though > > possibly SFU/Interix would work). > > Yeah, I had just started to wonder about that when your mail arrived. > It'll need to happen if we want to say that "VC is supported" > with a straight face, but I can easily imagine that it'll > require nontrivial work. > > I don't mind though if running the regression tests requires > mingw; that's not an essential step unless you're a developer.
The tests I run against it now are run from MingW. And naturally, it only works with "installcheck" and not "check", but that's to be expected.. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
