Re: pg_config --pgxs on Win32

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Hallgren <thhal(at)mailblocks(dot)com>
Subject: Re: pg_config --pgxs on Win32
Date: 2005-10-15 19:56:45
Message-ID: 200510152156.46874.peter_e@gmx.net
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> I don't see an easy way out. Half the system thinks backslashes are
> special and need expansion, the other half thinks forward slashes are
> option markers. This is really just a variation on the "space in
> filenames" issue in UNIX.

pg_config --pgxs is supposed to be included from a makefile, and while
GNU make supports command.com/cmd.exe to be the underlying shell of a
make process, it's unlikely that our makefiles do, so you need a
Unix-style shell anyway, so the forward slashes are not a problem.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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