Re: installing 7.2b3 on IRIX 6.5.13 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: installing 7.2b3 on IRIX 6.5.13
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Msg-id 19065.1006875490@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: installing 7.2b3 on IRIX 6.5.13  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> One of these days I'm going to write this down somewhere:  GCC + Irix +
> PostgreSQL does not work -- until proven otherwise and/or GCC is fixed.

Oh.  Yup, that should be documented or enforced by configure.

> I was going to suggest myself someday that we force CC=cc, but it should
> be done in configure.in (near line 274) and not in the template file.

Makes sense to me to do it in configure.in.  Shall we go ahead and put
that in?

> We've had successful reports for Irix in the past, so I don't think the -n
> and -r flags are strictly necessary -- at least I'd like to see more
> information regarding them.  What makes -n32 and -r12000 better than, say,
> -n64 and -r6000?

Luis' followup indicated that -r wasn't really needed.  Not sure about -n.
        regards, tom lane


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