Failed regression tests - Mailing list pgsql-general

I recently compiled and installed PostgreSQL 7.0 on a P-III workstation
running SuSE Linux 6.2 (2.2.10 kernel, gcc ver. 2.7.2.3).  The compilation
completed with some non-fatal warnings, but when I ran the sequential
regression tests, five failures occurred.

The first two failures may reflect a 'formating' problem:

 1. int8, test 13:    a "$" appears left-justified in all entries in 2nd col
 2. numeric, test 13: a "$" appears left-justified in all entries in 2nd col

I am using an international code page (LANG=en_US.iso88591), and perhaps the
$ appears because I used /.configure --enable-locale?

The next two failures may reflect a 'sorting' problem:

 3. select_implicit:  output lines sorted A,B,b,C,c,X instead of A,B,C,X,b,c
 4. select_having:    output lines sorted b,X instead of X,b

The final "select_view" failure is rather messy:

      *** expected/select_views.out    Sat Jan  8 22:48:37 2000
      --- results/select_views.out    Fri May 26 13:25:43 2000
      ***************
      *** 415,420 ****
      --- 415,434 ----
         I- 580                             |       21
         I- 580                             |       22
         I- 580                             |       22
      +  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        2
      +  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        2
      +  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        2
      +  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        2
      +  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        2
      +  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        2
      +  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        4
      +  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        4
      +  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        4
      +  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        4
      +  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        5
      +  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        6
      +  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        6
      +  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        6
         I- 580                        Ramp |        2
         I- 580                        Ramp |        2
         I- 580                        Ramp |        2
      ***************
      *** 665,684 ****
         I- 580                        Ramp |        8
         I- 580                        Ramp |        8
         I- 580                        Ramp |        8
      -  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        2
      -  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        2
      -  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        2
      -  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        2
      -  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        2
      -  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        2
      -  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        4
      -  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        4
      -  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        4
      -  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        4
      -  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        5
      -  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        6
      -  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        6
      -  I- 580/I-680                  Ramp |        6
         I- 680                             |        2
         I- 680                             |        2
         I- 680                             |        2
      --- 679,684 ----

My config.log reports 3 problems which may have caused the failures:

-----
  configure: In function `main':
  configure:4885: storage size of `semun' isn't known
  configure: failed program was:
  #line 4880 "configure"
  #include "confdefs.h"
  #include <sys/types.h>
  #include <sys/ipc.h>
  #include <sys/sem.h>
  int main() {
  union semun semun;
  ; return 0; }
-----
  configure:4904: checking for fcntl(F_SETLK)
  configure:4916: gcc -o conftest -O2     conftest.c -lcrypt -lnsl -ldl -lm -lreadconfigure: In function `main':
  configure:4910: `SEEK_SET' undeclared (first use in this function)
  configure:4910: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
  configure:4910: for each function it appears in.)
  configure: failed program was:
  #line 4906 "configure"
  #include "confdefs.h"
  #include <fcntl.h>
  int main() {
  struct flock lck;
          lck.l_whence = SEEK_SET; lck.l_start = lck.l_len = 0;
          lck.l_type = F_WRLCK;
          fcntl(0, F_SETLK, &lck);
  ; return 0; }
------
configure:6446: gcc -o conftest -O2     conftest.c -lcrypt -lnsl -ldl -lm -lread
cconfigure: failed program was:
#line 6418 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
typedef long int int64;

/* These are globals to discourage the compiler from folding all the
 * arithmetic tests down to compile-time constants.
  */
  int64 a = 20000001;
  int64 b = 40000005;

  int does_int64_work()
  {
    int64 c,d;

    if (sizeof(int64) != 8)
      return 0;                   /* doesn't look like the right size */

    /* Do perfunctory checks to see if 64-bit arithmetic seems to work */
    c = a * b;
    d = (c + b) / b;
    if (d != a+1)
      return 0;
    return 1;
  }
  main() {
    exit(! does_int64_work());
  }

Finally, the /.configure output included a dozen or so  check ... (no)
entries (including some header files), which may contribute to the failures.

Have I banged into configure bugs, missing or misplaced Linux libraries, or
my own stupidity?

Thanks for any pointers,
--
 Bruce Saunders