From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Louis Bertrand <louis@bertrandtech.on.ca>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: your mail
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 17:52:18 -0300 (ADT)
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908021749360.401-100000@thelab.hub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.10.9908021909150.4424-100000@tronix.bertrandtech.on.ca>
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Louis Bertrand wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm the guy trying to build the 6.5.1 port for OpenBSD. I agree there is a
> limited target audience for this port, but that audience won't get any
> bigger if nobody does anything about it. Like Diana, I chose my OS first
> and my database engine second. However, my choice of OS shouldn't dictate
> that I must settle for second-best applications, hence the effort to port
> pgsql and its various components.
>
> I think I played by The Rules[TM] of freenix software with my posts to the
> ports mailing list: well researched to the limits of my abilities, showing
> what and where I thought the problem was, and asking specific questions.
> Marc and Tom's replies make me sound like all I did was whine that "it
Marc who?? unless I black'd out the episode, this is the first I've read
about it...*raised eyebrow* And if I gave the impression that I thought
you were whining, I do apologize, as it was not my intention to do so...
> Maybe I should have been more pushy, but that's history
> now. With both specific problems, a repost to the OpenBSD misc list
> brought the answer from experienced OpenBSD developers.
Just curious, but what turned out to be the problem, and is it something
we can/should change in the source tree to prevent it in the future?
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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