Re: Build error

[Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>]

Magnus Hagander wrote:

> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > I am trying to build the latest nightly snapshot on 
> > windows2000, and I'm getting the following error:
> >
> >
> > make[2]: Entering directory 
> > `/d/work/pgsql/postgresql-snapshot/src/port'
> > [..snip..]
> >
> > I believe there is something wrong with mingw or msys, and not with
> > the pgsql sources.    Do you have any idea about what could 
> > be the problem ?
> >    
>
> This looks like the "failed to fake-symlink using copy" error. Try
> running configure again (the command that ended up complaining about
> pg_config_os.h). If that doesn't work, try it once more. If it still
> doesn't work, then it's something else :-)
>
>  

Is there any workaround for this? Maybe we could look at having 
configure loop a few times trying to make the (fake) symlink - I know 
it's hackish, but if it works ...

cheers

andrew