Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Upgrade to Autoconf 2.69

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Upgrade to Autoconf 2.69
Date: 2013-12-23 15:46:19
Message-ID: 52B85ACB.4040509@gmx.net
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On 12/21/13, 9:39 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> This is enabling large-file support on OS X, so that seems kind of
> important. It's not failing with newer versions of OS X, so that leaves
> the following possibilities, I think:
>
> - Large files never worked on 10.5. That would be strange because
> Autoconf explicitly refers to that version.
>
> - New OS X versions have this on by default (could someone check?), so
> it already worked before, and it's something specific to 10.5 that's
> broken.

Current OS X has 64-bit inodes on by default, so this code works in
general. So it's probably one of the other causes.

> - It's something specific to PowerPC or endianness.
>
> - That build farm member has a strange setup.

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