Re: Compiling on HP-UX 10.20 fails

"Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I've always assumed that the userland thread support in 10.20 is too
>> broken to be worth troubling with.

> Using GNU Pth 2.07 on hpux 10.20 all tests provided with the library
> pass when built via gcc 2.95.3. hpux is definitely a capricious
> platform on a lot of levels, but Andrew's patch does technically fix
> the build. PostgreSQL's threading tests pass as well. The
> alternative is to have configure error out if threading is requested
> for this platform.

Configure already does error out if threading is requested for this
platform ;-). The question in my mind is if we want to take any
additional trouble for an OS version long out of support by its maker.
I'd vote not, even though I still use it ...

regards, tom lane