The following confirmed for your 7.0RC1 (except that spinlock stuck arises at
spin.c:116). Please, do smth before the official release comes!
> I just have tested your 7.0beta5. My system is RH Linux 6.1 2.2.14 on Alpha.
> gcc --version says: egcs-2.91.66. I still have two major problems:
>
> 1. ./configure doesn't recognize my OS. ./config.guess reports:
> alphaev5-unknown-linux-gnu
> so ./configure chooses 'linux' and fails.
>
> 2. I compiled and installed all the stuff successfully using
> ./configure --with-x --with-tcl --with-template=linux_alpha
>
> Environment is set as follows:
> PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data
> PGLIB=/usr/local/pgsql/lib
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/lib
>
> Running initdb causes the following:
>
> > This database system will be initialized with username "postgres".
> > This user will own all the data files and must also own the server process.
> >
> > Creating database system directory /usr/local/pgsql/data
> > Creating database system directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/base
> > Creating database XLOG directory /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog
> > Creating template database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1
> >
> > FATAL: s_lock(2030d400) at spin.c:115, stuck spinlock. Aborting.
> >
> > FATAL: s_lock(2030d400) at spin.c:115, stuck spinlock. Aborting.
> >
> > initdb failed.
> > Removing /usr/local/pgsql/data.
> > Removing temp file /tmp/initdb.32548.
>
> I faced with exactly the same trouble since PostgreSQL 6.4.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Denis N. Stepanov.
> BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia.
