Re: [HACKERS] Alpha initdb fixed! - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Alpha initdb fixed!
Date
Msg-id 199803200353.WAA24249@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Alpha initdb fixed!  (Dwayne Bailey <dwayne@mika.com>)
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Applied.

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> I've gotten 6.3 initdb to run to a successful completion on my
> Alpha running OSF/1 V3.2c.  Forget the change that I sent in
> earlier.  While I still think that there's something funky with
> that code, it doesn not need to be modifed.  Actually, the
> modifications are miniscule.  The only files that need to be
> changed are backend/main/main.c and template/alpha.
>
> The real trick is to add -Dalpha to the CFLAGS setting.  The
> changes to main.c are only to add some extra includes to support
> some code that's suddenly being used.
>
> The #define ASSEMBLER is to prevent most of the code of
> sys/proc.h from being included, as it ends up conflicting with
> some of the postgresql definitions.  This may or may not work on
> other versions of Digital Unix.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, this is a hack fix.  There's still some
> underlying 32/64 bit assumtions that this is masking.  Perhaps


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