Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL supported platform report and a

Many thanks Larry,

Sorry I had omited the -Xb (no secret dance) in my report...

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Larry Rosenman wrote:

> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:17:28 -0600
> 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
> Subject: Re: [PORTS] [HACKERS] PostgreSQL supported platform report and a 
> 
> 
> 
> --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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