error compiling postgresql with fedora mingw

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 09:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> writes:
> > On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 11:05 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 02:19:27PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> That makes sense.  Could you have simplified matters by just prepending
> >>> /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin to your PATH?
> 
> > That said, I also recommend against this habit - In case of properly
> > packaged autoconf/automake-based packages it definitely wrong.
> 
> Seems like these choices are carefully calculated to cause the maximum
> amount of pain to *both* the upstream projects and the poor sods trying
> to build them.
The logic actually is very simple:

configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32
will search for i686-pc-mingw32-prefixed tools (such as
i686-pc-mingw32-gcc) in $PATH.

Ralf