Tom,
Thanks for the detailed info... makes my life a lot easier!
Eric
On May 9, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> That isn't exactly a trivial thing to do, because the pg_config.h
>> data
>> differs for the two arches. It will *not* work to just run a basic
>> configure and build with CFLAGS set like that. (If you troll the
>> pgsql-archives archives for "universal binary" you can probably
>> find some discussions of what's needed to make it work. I seem to
>> recall that we simplified it in the last year or so, but that was
>> very possibly post-8.3.)
>
> er ... s/pgsql-archives/pgsql-hackers/ of course ... a bit of trolling
> later, it seems that this message has the best summary of what you
> have
> to do with 8.3 or older branches to get working universal binaries:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-02/msg00200.php
>
> Things will be less ugly with 8.4:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg00884.php
>
> but still not just a quick CFLAGS setting away.
>
> But it remains to be determined whether that's actually the cause of
> the
> view problem you're complaining about. Did you configure/build on a
> different arch than you're running on now?
>
> regards, tom lane
