Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] postgresql fails to build

[Volker Grabsch]

Tony Theodore schrieb:
> On 13 March 2012 17:43, Santiago Germino <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Yes, I've forced it to 2.68 and it worked flawlessly. Is it possible
> > to include something like AC_PREREQ(2.64) to force the debian wrapper
> > script (and parhaps others) to choose a suitable version or fail with
> > a useful error description?
> 
> I'm not sure about forcing the wrapper script to use a certain
> version, we wouldn't usually do something that is so specific to an
> os.
> 
> Failing early is certainly possible and may be as simple as writing a
> small configure.ac that checks our requirements. Most of the
> requirements are fairly common and probably already have AC macros for
> version testing. It's not something I've looked at though.

There is already such a test in our main Makefile. However,
it justs checks for existence of various tools, not for their
versions.


Greets
Volker

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Volker Grabsch
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