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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2009-07-24 15:03:07 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2009-07-24 15:03:07 +0000
commit655473a7cd3903d2ce75054468c855d5c294aaf9 (patch)
tree41ddf09445422caf4264e4120d6c5206226ece4a /configure.in
parentdc7aa3652129803b19b0f10374c7cb097ff2335a (diff)
downloadpostgresql-655473a7cd3903d2ce75054468c855d5c294aaf9.tar.gz
Add commentary about Cygwin's broken erand48, per report from Andrew Dunstan.
Diffstat (limited to 'configure.in')
-rw-r--r--configure.in5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 6b663c1d75..79e1541e25 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-dnl $PostgreSQL: pgsql/configure.in,v 1.606 2009/07/23 23:50:29 adunstan Exp $
+dnl $PostgreSQL: pgsql/configure.in,v 1.607 2009/07/24 15:03:07 tgl Exp $
dnl
dnl Developers, please strive to achieve this order:
dnl
@@ -1289,7 +1289,8 @@ if test "$PORTNAME" = "solaris"; then
AC_LIBOBJ(getopt)
fi
-# Cygwin's erand48 sometimes hangs, so force use of ours
+# Cygwin's erand48() is broken (always returns zero) in some releases,
+# so force use of ours.
if test "$PORTNAME" = "cygwin"; then
AC_LIBOBJ(erand48)
fi