Re: spinlock support for Sun Studio 12 compiler on linux - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

"Len Zaifman" <leonardz@sickkids.ca> writes:
> The following error occuredbuilding Postgresql 8.2.4  on SLES 9 using SUN STUDIO 12 compilers
> sunstudio12/bin/cc -O -I../../../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE   -c -o xlog.o xlog.c
> "../../../../src/include/storage/s_lock.h", line 810: #error: PostgreSQL does not have native spinlock support on
this
> platform.  To continue the compilation, rerun configure using --disable-spinlocks.  However, performance will be
poor.
>  Please report this to pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org.

By and large we don't try to support nonstandard compilers on Linux.
Use gcc.

            regards, tom lane