Re: cross compiling postgresql 8.0.1 -- suggestion - Mailing list pgsql-ports

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: cross compiling postgresql 8.0.1 -- suggestion
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Msg-id 200503110345.j2B3jPF24292@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: cross compiling postgresql 8.0.1 -- suggestion  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Vladimir Bychkovsky <vladimir.bychkovsky@gmail.com> writes:
> > A simple solution to this problem is to remove target zic from 'all'
> > and add it to 'install' target. see attached patch.
>
> This is no solution at all, surely.  Why would you assume that make
> install is going to be done by the target architecture, or that the
> target even has a compiler (much less the same compiler that the build
> tree has been configured for)?  Besides, the problem isn't *building*
> zic, it is *running* it.
>
> > Please let me know if there is a better way to solve this problem.
>
> There is prior discussion of this problem in the archives, but AFAIR
> we didn't yet find a solution that people liked.

Added to TODO:

    * Fix cross-compiling of time zone database via 'zic'

I am open to better wording.

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