port to IRIX 6.3

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Version : PostgreSQL 6.5.3
=======

System : SGI O2, R10000, IRIX 6.3 (more or less up to date with
====== official SGI patches)

Compilers : MIPSpro C 7.2, gcc 2.95 (c++)
=========

Perl : 5.005_03
====

Tcl/Tk : 8.2.2
======

Configuration :
=============
setenv ac_cv_lib_gen_main no
setenv ac_cv_lib_socket_main no
setenv ac_cv_lib_nsl_main no

# see SGI freeware site freeware.sgi.com)

./configure --with-CC="cc -n32" \
--with-CXX=c++ \
--with-perl \
--with-tcl

Compilation : gmake LD="ld -n32" CC="cc -n32" all
=========== gmake LD="ld -n32" CC="cc -n32" install

Changes :
=======

*** postgresql-6.5.3/src/backend/Makefile.dist Sun Mar 7 23:05:56 1999
--- postgresql-6.5.3/src/backend/Makefile Wed Dec 8 11:16:33 1999
***************
*** 75,81 ****

ifneq ($(PORTNAME), win)
postgres: fmgr.h $(OBJS) ../utils/version.o
! $(CC) -o postgres $(OBJS) ../utils/version.o $(LDFLAGS)
else
postgres: $(DLLOBJS) ../utils/dllinit.o postgres.def libpostgres.a
dlltool --dllname $(at)$(X) --output-exp $(at)(dot)exp --def postgres.def
--- 75,85 ----

ifneq ($(PORTNAME), win)
postgres: fmgr.h $(OBJS) ../utils/version.o
! # $(CC) -o postgres $(OBJS) ../utils/version.o $(LDFLAGS)
! -rm -f *.o
! find . -name "*.o" -exec cp \{\} . \;
! rm -f SUBSYS.o
! $(CC) -o postgres *.o ../utils/version.o $(LDFLAGS)
else
postgres: $(DLLOBJS) ../utils/dllinit.o postgres.def libpostgres.a
dlltool --dllname $(at)$(X) --output-exp $(at)(dot)exp --def postgres.def

Regression test went ok (gmake LD="ld -n32" CC="cc -n32"
runtest). There are some files in expect that contain values of "-0"
instead of "0": this is reported as 'failure'.

Cheers

Clemens
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