Re: Why polecat and colugos are failing to build back branches

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 00:01, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
> On 06/14/2011 05:45 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>  writes:
>>>
>>> On 06/13/2011 08:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I looked into $SUBJECT.  There appear to be two distinct issues:
>>>> ...
>>>
>>> I think we can be a bit more liberal about build patches than things
>>> that can affect the runtime behaviour.
>>> So +1 for fixing both of these.
>>
>> I've committed patches that fix these issues on my own OS X machine,
>> though it remains to be seen whether polecat and colugos will like
>> them.  It turns out that whatever setup Robert has got with
>> '/Volumes/High Usage/' is really *not* fully exercising the system
>> as far as space-containing paths go, because I found bugs in all
>> active branches when I tried to do builds and installs underneath
>> '/Users/tgl/foo bar/'.  Is it worth setting up a buildfarm critter
>> to exercise the case on a long-term basis?  If we don't, I think
>> we can expect that it'll break regularly.
>>
>> (I wouldn't care to bet that the MSVC case works yet, either.)
>>
>>
>
> Well, OSX is just using our usual *nix paraphernalia, so if it's broken
> won't all such platforms probably be broken too? I'd actually bet a modest
> amount MSVC is less broken because it uses perl modules like File::Copy to
> do most of its work and so will be less prone to shell parsing breakage.

Also, once installed, the vast majority of all Windows installs will
be running out of "c:\program files\postgresql", so we know it works
at *runtime*. But yeah, it wouldn't hurt to have a bf animal do the
actual testing out of such a path too.

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