Re: PostgreSQL 8.1 x86_64 and 32bit shared objects

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: cgg007(at)yahoo(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 8.1 x86_64 and 32bit shared objects
Date: 2006-02-07 20:11:41
Message-ID: 29690.1139343101@sss.pgh.pa.us
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CG <cgg007(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> Hm. It looks like building 32-bit Postgres is going to be even uglier
> what with all the libraries that will have to be compiled into
> lib32. It thought it would be easy enough to CC=gcc32 ./configure
> --with-all-my-options ... Should I have started out with a 32-bit
> Linux distro?

Not sure what other distros are doing, but at least for Red Hat you
should be able to get 32-bit versions of all the libraries in the
standard distro, and even install them in parallel with 64-bit.

Also, you probably want to use setarch rather than fooling piecemeal
with CC etc.

regards, tom lane

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