Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:08:25 -0500 From: Jason Tishler To: Jens Greven Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, Siegfried Heintze Subject: Re: OT: PostgreSQL Sources (was RE: Need help in updating my packages) Message-ID: <20010301150825.D497@dothill.com> Mail-Followup-To: Jens Greven , cygwin@cygwin.com, Siegfried Heintze References: <200103011536.f21Fapr21764@mailgate3.cinetic.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103011536.f21Fapr21764@mailgate3.cinetic.de>; from jensgreven@web.de on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:36:51PM +0100 Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp. On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:36:51PM +0100, Jens Greven wrote: > I found the sources via the mirror list on the PostgreSQL web > site (www.postgresql.org). There is an excellent mirror in Germany, > http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de where you can not only find the > stable versions but also the betas. (By the way, they mirror the > cygwin stuff, too). I recommend using PostgreSQL 7.1beta5 or later (i.e., CVS) since they build OOTB under Cygwin. > I had some trouble unless I got the readline > libraries from the GNU Project (if I remember correctly they can > also be found on that server). PostgreSQL builds and works just fine with the Cygwin supplied readline. > You will need the CygIPC libraries if > you want to compile that stuff under Cygwin, those can be found on > http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/V1.1/cygipc/ I recommend using cygipc 1.09, see the following for why: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-02/msg00987.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-02/msg00988.html > But, as you can see from my original posting, you need to patch some > of the stuff mentioned above to get it running under Windows 2000 / > NT with Cygwin. If somebody knows more precisely what to do _PLEASE_ > share your knowledge ;-) No source patches are needed. Just use a current PostgreSQL and Cygwin 1.1.8-2 with cygwin1.dll replaced by a recent snapshot to correct the mmap/fork problem. The following may be useful although it is somewhat out of date: http://people.freebsd.org/~kevlo/postgres/portNT.html Jason -- Jason Tishler Director, Software Engineering Phone: +1 (732) 264-8770 x235 Dot Hill Systems Corp. Fax: +1 (732) 264-8798 82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: Jason.Tishler@dothill.com Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple