On 2022-05-02 Mo 03:06, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 10:18:37AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> IIRC we know that tar will be available on Windows. > What about gzip? Are the binaries and the libraries split into > different packages for this package manager on Windows? We've never > assumed that this is possible on ./configure, but it would make sense > to make MSVC able to manage this case.
vcpkg doesn't install any.exe files AFAICS, just DLLs, headers, .lib files etc. > >> I don't think we should do that check for every time we call >> vc_regress.pl, that seems wasteful. Maybe do it if the command is one >> that might require these commands, which I think would be bincheck or >> taptest. And/Or stash some status somewhere? > Mostly. We also care about gzip in contrib/basebackup_to_shell/, > though contribcheck does not run the TAP tests of contrib/ modules. > As you say, setting up those variables in bincheck and taptest would > be enough. That would be a start. Maybe meson will us get rid of some of this mess ... cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
