Re: join regression failure on cygwin

Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hmm. So we need to figure out how to improve configure's check so that
>> it rejects whatever broken version you've got ...

> Yeah. Any ideas? I'd hate just to exclude the system erand48 on Cygwin
> and then find out later it's broken on some other abstruse system.

Seems like it would be useful to figure out exactly why it's failing.

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.

regards, tom lane