Bruno Mattarollo writes:
> Thanks Peter! That solved the problem and I could get postgresql 7.1.3 to
> compile.
Okay, the fix has been checked in for the next release.
> Actually it works :) It seems that for my needs now, this GCC is
> enough...
I'm referring to the note at http://freeware.sgi.com/howto.html:
* gcc vs. cc
Code that runs fine when compiled with SGI cc and doesn't run when compiled with gcc might be calling one of the
followingfunctions:
inet_ntoa, inet_lnaof, inet_netof, inet_makeaddr, semctl
(there may be others). These are functions that get passed or return structs that are smaller than 16 bytes but
not8 bytes long. gcc and SGI cc are incompatible in the way they pass these structs so compiling with gcc and
linkingwith the SGI libc.so (which was compiled with the SGI cc) is likely to cause these problems. Note that this
problem is pretty rare since such functions are not widely used. This may be considered a bug in gcc but is too
involvedto fix I'm told.
PostgreSQL calls at least semctl(), but not necessarily during mere
"seeing if it works". So be careful.
Check out the above site for more resources about open source software on
Irix.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
