Has anyone confirmed these problems under Irix?
> Hi,
>
> i have just grabbed the 6.3 snapshot and tried to compile it on irix 6.2 -
> without success.
>
> The following errors occurred:
>
> 1) configure fails
>
> % ./configure
> [...]
> linking ./backend/port/tas/i386_solaris.s to backend/port/tas.s
> linking ./backend/port/dynloader/irix5.c to backend/port/dynloader.c
> configure: error: ./backend/port/dynloader/irix5.c: File not found
This seems a little fundamental!!!
>
>
> 2) compiling the backend fails:
> in src/backend the gcc call
> gcc -mabi=64 -o postgres access/SUBSYS.o bootstrap/SUBSYS.o
> catalog/SUBSYS.o commands/SUBSYS.o executor/SUBSYS.o lib/SUBSYS.o
> libpq/SUBSYS.o main/SUBSYS.o nodes/SUBSYS.o optimizer/SUBSYS.o
> parser/SUBSYS.o port/SUBSYS.o postmaster/SUBSYS.o regex/SUBSYS.o
> rewrite/SUBSYS.o storage/SUBSYS.o tcop/SUBSYS.o utils/SUBSYS.o
> ../utils/version.o -64 -lPW -lcrypt -lm -lbsd -lreadline -lhistory
> -ltermcap -lcurses
>
> returns
> [...]
> ld64: ERROR 33: Unresolved text symbol "S_INIT_LOCK" -- 1st referenced by
> storage/SUBSYS.o.
> ld64: ERROR 33: Unresolved text symbol "S_UNLOCK" -- 1st referenced by
> storage/SUBSYS.o.
> ld64: ERROR 33: Unresolved text symbol "S_LOCK" -- 1st referenced by
> storage/SUBSYS.o
>
>
> these functions just seem to be implemented for linux/alpha ??
I'm generally a little dubious when people report a problem in actually
compiling 'cos of the Irix 6.x bug in ld. However, this guy is using
gcc, not native Irix cc/ld
> Fuad Abdallah
> Max-Planck-Institut fuer Zuechtungsforschung / ZWDV
> Tel.: 0221/5062-739 / Priv: 0221/584563
>
With any luck I should have a bit of time next week to do some testing under
Irix - things have been rather hectic the last few weeks.
Andrew
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