error compiling postgresql with fedora mingw

[Farkas Levente]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 09:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> writes:
>>> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 11:05 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 02:19:27PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>>> That makes sense.  Could you have simplified matters by just prepending
>>>>> /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin to your PATH?
>>> That said, I also recommend against this habit - In case of properly
>>> packaged autoconf/automake-based packages it definitely wrong.
>> Seems like these choices are carefully calculated to cause the maximum
>> amount of pain to *both* the upstream projects and the poor sods trying
>> to build them.
> The logic actually is very simple:
> 
> configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32
> will search for i686-pc-mingw32-prefixed tools (such as
> i686-pc-mingw32-gcc) in $PATH.

there is a fedora-mingw list which is the right place to ask.
anyway in the latest mingw32-filesystem there is a script
mingw32-configure which do it right.

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