Hi Magnus,

> Yeah, this is a known problem, and it's fixed for 8.3. Really, the msvc
> build process in 8.2 has a *lot* of rough edges ;-) The code itself builds
> fine, but the buildsystem needed a lot more work.
>
Great - figured that might be the case.

>> 3. If you have a contrib module that is not known to the build system
>> it blows up. For example, I use PostGIS. When running build.bat it
>> stops at postgis (sorry, I didn't write down the error message but can
>> easily get it if needed). Could unknown contrib modules just be skipped
>> instead?
>>
>
> Uh, can you explain more what you mean? How can the pg build be affected by
> postgis?
>
Download postgis source and put it under contrib/postis. Then:

C:\Development\msys\src\postgresql-8.2.4\src\tools\msvc>perl mkvcbuild.pl
Could not determine contrib module type for postgis-1.2.1
at mkvcbuild.pl line 326
main::AddContrib('postgis-1.2.1') called at mkvcbuild.pl line 200

There is a loop in mkvcbuild.pl that processes the contrib modules:

my $D;
opendir($D, 'contrib') || croak "Could not opendir on contrib!\n";
while (my $d = readdir($D)) {
next if ($d =~ /^\./);
next unless (-f "contrib/$d/Makefile");
next if (grep {/^$d$/} @contrib_excludes);
AddContrib($d);
}
closedir($D);


Perhaps I shouldn't be installing the postgis source to contrib, but
that used to be the recommended practice (at least for PostGis).

Thanks for the help,

Charlie