from the StackBuilder application included in the <ulink url="http://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads"> EnterpriseDB
PostgreSQL installer</ulink>
-<para> There are also RPM binaries available at that site for recent
+<para> There are also RPM binaries available in the <ulink url="http://yum.postgresql.org"> PostgreSQL YUM repository</ulink> site for recent
versions of &slony1; for recent versions of &postgres;.
</para>
</note>
<para>The <application>configure</application> script will run a
number of tests to guess values for various dependent variables and
-try to detect some quirks of your system. &slony1; is known to need a
-modified version of <application>libpq</application> on specific
-platforms such as Solaris2.X on SPARC. A patch for libpq version
-7.4.2 can be found at <ulink id="threadpatch" url=
-"http://developer.postgresql.org/~wieck/slony1/download/threadsafe-libpq-742.diff.gz">
-http://developer.postgresql.org/~wieck/slony1/download/threadsafe-libpq-742.diff.gz
-</ulink> Similar patches may need to be constructed for other
-versions. </para>
+try to detect some quirks of your system. </para>
</sect2>
</ulink> along with <ulink url="http://openjade.sourceforge.net/">
OpenJade.</ulink> </para></listitem>
-<listitem><para> On &windows; you will also need the same <ulink url=
-"http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_MINGW.html">MinGW/Msys
-Toolset</ulink> used to build &postgres; 8.3 and above. In addition
-you will need to install <ulink url=
-"http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/">pthreads-win32
-2.x</ulink>. </para></listitem>
+<listitem><para> On &windows; you will also need the same Visual Studio(Visual C) compiler from Microsoft. See <xref linkend="buildingwin32"> for more information </para></listitem>
</itemizedlist> </para>