Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk

[Andy Moreton]

On Sat 13 Feb 2021, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> We may indeed decide that good support for the MS-Windows build is not
>> a prerequisite, but then we'd need someone to volunteer to fix any
>> potential problems, including breaking the MS-Windows build, as result
>> of the merge.  IME, any breakage of that kind on master is left
>> unfixed until yours truly does it.
>
> I think it's clear we don't want to merge  of those two branches if they
> introduce regressions in the "normal" case (i.e. the case where we
> build without pgtk and without native-comp support).
>
>> If I'm unable to build the native-comp code (and Andy just said
>> the --with-wide-int configuration, which is what I use, doesn't
>> build),
>
> I suspect that his report of breakage is not that the native-comp branch
> can't build at all on Windows+wide-int but that it doesn't build *if* you
> enable native-comp.

Yes. The problem is only when configured with both "--with-wide-int" and
"--with-nativecomp". Sorry if that was not clear.

   AndyM