Notice: I have mailed this (a bit different) message yesterday. I got no
response and gathered that that might not be the correct forum. I hope this
is.

Hi everybody,

I started porting postgreSQL 6.3.2 to Windows NT. For that I use CygWin19B
with EGCS 1.1 and several seperate utilities. In this environment I have a
fairly good unix environment on Windows NT.

Currently my attempts meet resistance from the configure script. I have some
questions that maybe someone can answer:

1. If I run configure it wants a template: cygwin32_nt. As I do not have
that I use the generic template. I cannot find docs that say what exactly is
wanted in the template. Is there a better template to use?
2. During the etst for the install util I get:

checking for install... /d/Cygnus/B19/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/install
- Using /d/Cygnus/B19/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/install
test:       0: bad number
test: ECHO_C_OUT: bad number
configure: error: echo behaviour undetermined

What is the meaning of the test as I have an install but it seems not to
work correctly?

3. After I removed the exit(1) at the install test, configure went on but
stopped at a moment that several (platform dependant?) files could not be
found. What files are those and what should they do?

TIA

Joost



Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:48:45 +0200
"Joost Kraaijeveld" <JKraaijeveld@askesis.nl>
Running configure / port to Windows NT
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:

> Notice: I have mailed this (a bit different) message yesterday. I got no
> response and gathered that that might not be the correct forum. I hope this
> is.
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I started porting postgreSQL 6.3.2 to Windows NT. For that I use CygWin19B
> with EGCS 1.1 and several seperate utilities. In this environment I have a
> fairly good unix environment on Windows NT.
> 
> Currently my attempts meet resistance from the configure script. I have some
> questions that maybe someone can answer:
> 
> 1. If I run configure it wants a template: cygwin32_nt. As I do not have
> that I use the generic template. I cannot find docs that say what exactly is
> wanted in the template. Is there a better template to use?

	See the template files in the templates directory and build a
cygwin32_nt appropriate one...there are no docs on this, but its should be
pretty self-explanatory...

> 2. During the etst for the install util I get: >
 
> checking for install... /d/Cygnus/B19/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/install
> - Using /d/Cygnus/B19/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/install
> test:       0: bad number
> test: ECHO_C_OUT: bad number
> configure: error: echo behaviour undetermined
> 
> What is the meaning of the test as I have an install but it seems not to
> work correctly?

	check configure.in ... there appears to be something wrong with
the way that its 'determining' how the echo command is handled...

> 3. After I removed the exit(1) at the install test, configure went on but
> stopped at a moment that several (platform dependant?) files could not be
> found. What files are those and what should they do?

	without sending the actual errors...your guess is as good as ours
:)



Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:15:50 -0400 (EDT)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Re: [HACKERS] Running configure / port to Windows NT