Re: [PORTS] RedHat6.0 & Alpha

> Ok,
> I would have liked to have seen the fix to typedef time_t AbsoluteTime in
> nabstime.h, rather than this, but i guess its some movement :-/

It is on our list. Too late to get that into 6.5.1:

* Make Absolutetime/Relativetime int4 because time_t can be int8 on some ports

> As per ur request, I am sending u ( bruce) my changed *.[ch] files from the
> July 20 source ( they are not diffs ) . All the regressions tests work except
> for geometry ( precision ? ) and Rules ( of which i will follow up (later)
> with a question.

I will not accept non-diff files. See tools/make_diff or use cvs diff.
Is this the kind of Alpha support I get? :-;

> I u folks got any questions please let me know, As i'm sure that you will
> have some.
>
> Regarding the Test&set problems, u have to compile spin.c with -fno-inline.
> i'd give u a makefile but i'm not sure how u folks are handling the
> ifeq ($(OS), linux )
> ifeq ($(CPU), alpha )
> spin.o: spin.c
> $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -fno-inline spin.c -o spin.o
> endif
> endif
>
> I'm using -O3, and seems happy
> gat

I have added to backend/storage/ipc/Makefile:

# seems to be required 1999/07/22 bjm
ifeq ($(CPU),alpha)
ifeq ($(CC), gcc)
CFLAGS+= -fno-inline
endif
ifeq ($(CC), egcs)
CFLAGS+= -fno-inline
endif
endif

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