Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Upgrade to Autoconf 2.69 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Upgrade to Autoconf 2.69
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Msg-id 52B85ACB.4040509@gmx.net
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Upgrade to Autoconf 2.69  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On 12/21/13, 9:39 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> This is enabling large-file support on OS X, so that seems kind of
> important.  It's not failing with newer versions of OS X, so that leaves
> the following possibilities, I think:
> 
> - Large files never worked on 10.5.  That would be strange because
> Autoconf explicitly refers to that version.
> 
> - New OS X versions have this on by default (could someone check?), so
> it already worked before, and it's something specific to 10.5 that's
> broken.

Current OS X has 64-bit inodes on by default, so this code works in
general.  So it's probably one of the other causes.

> - It's something specific to PowerPC or endianness.
> 
> - That build farm member has a strange setup.




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