Re: [PORTS] RedHat6.0 & Alpha

Thomas Lockhart wrote:

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> btw, RedHat is interested in doing a maintenance release of Postgres
> rpms, and would dearly love to have the Alpha port problems solved (or
> vica versa; they hate that their shipping rpms are broken or not
> available on one of their three supported architectures).

Well, in order to do this properly for linux/alpha & the egcs compiler  u
need to know more, or realize more on the dangers of casting. Please
note  that I haven't said improperly, blithely, or arbitarily.  Things
just happen in the alpha if things are not properly casted. In the case
of postgres this happens to be a (major) problem with function calls &
function parameters.   I have fixed just enough to get the regression
tests to work.
BTW I'd really love to have a redhat 6.0/alpha cd but not at the going
price of $79.00

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> Uncle G, could you tell us the actual port string configure generates
> for your platform? At the moment, PORTNAME on my i686 box says
> "linux", and I don't see architecture info. But perhaps we can have
> configure deduce an ARCH parameter too? It already knows it when first
> identifying the system...
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What is PORTNAME. i ( as well as others ) use uname.