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Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL supported platform report and a

Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>

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From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Olivier PRENANT <ohp@pyrenet.fr>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Billy G. Allie" <Bill.Allie@mug.org>, pgsql-ports@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-11-07T21:17:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 

--On Thursday, November 07, 2002 22:21:56 +0100 Peter Eisentraut 
<peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:

> Olivier PRENANT writes:
>
>> I don't mind having CFLAGS=-Xb  though, done it for php already...
>> By everyone says this should go off so..
>
> The idea of the platform testing is not to determine whether you can
> compile PostgreSQL after performing a secret dance.  If it doesn't compile
> with the default options, please don't report it as supported.
It DOES compile out of the box now on 8.0.0(7.1.2) and 7.1.3.  Apparently a 
compiler
fix between the 7.1.1b FS and 7.1.2.

The -Xb switch is NOT a secret dance.  It's needed for LOTS of open source 
stuff.

See the discussion from the Caldera folks last week.

Tom's fix fixed the defaults for 7.1.2+


>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net


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