On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 01:48:21AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Frank Bax <fbax@execulink.com> writes:
> > I've got an installation problem:
> > OpenBSD 2.6 - gmake 3.78.1 - Postgres 6.5.3 (new install)
>
> > storage/SUBSYS.o: Undefined symbol `_TAS' referenced from text segment
OpenBSD 2.6 includes Postgres 6.5.3 in its ports collection, which
fixes this.
> Hm. tas() is a machine-dependent subroutine for low-level spinlocking.
> It's typically provided as a macro in src/include/storage/s_lock.h
> or a function in src/backend/storage/buffer/s_lock.c; some platforms
> have assembly-coded versions in src/backend/port/tas/. It sounds like
> for some reason none of the provided alternatives are getting compiled
> on your platform. Please dig through the #ifdefs in those files and
> figure out what needs to be changed to make it work on your setup.
>
> (A likely possibility is that configure misidentified your platform;
> did you notice whether it printed a reasonable platform ID?)
--vince
