PostgreSQL-6.4 on Alpha

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POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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Your name :David Westhead
Your email address :westhead(at)bmb(dot)leeds(dot)ac(dot)uk

System Configuration
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Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) : DEC Alpha

Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) : Digital Unix V4.0

PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.4) : PostgreSQL-6.4

Compiler used (example: gcc 2.8.0) : gcc 2.8.1

Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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Postgres failed to compile, here is the error

gcc -I../../include -I../../backend -DNOFIXADE -Wall
-Wmissing-prototypes -I.. -c snprintf.c -o snprintf.o
snprintf.c: In function `vsnprintf':
snprintf.c:116: warning: type mismatch in implicit declaration for
built-in function `strlen'
snprintf.c: In function `fmtnum':
snprintf.c:357: argument `value' doesn't match prototype
snprintf.c:124: prototype declaration
make[2]: *** [snprintf.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-v6.4/src/backend/port'
make[1]: *** [port.dir] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/pgsql/postgresql-v6.4/src/backend'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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Just try to compile with version of 2.8.1. of gcc. NB. I've tried with
the native cc instead of gcc and again the code fails to compile, but
for a DIFFERENT reason. I'm going to try to solve the problem above.

If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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Dr. David R. Westhead, Lecturer in Bioinformatics
School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University of Leeds, Leeds, Yorkshire, LS2 9JT, UK
E-mail: westhead(at)bmb(dot)leeds(dot)ac(dot)uk Tel: 44 (0)113 233 3116