Nathan Boeger writes:

> I really love my Alpha FreeBSD box and I want to use PostgreSQL on it...
> but postgresql does not build.

If I were to take a guess, then you need to add

// snip
#elif defined(__alpha__)
typedef long int slock_t;
 
#define HAS_TEST_AND_SET
// snip

into src/include/port/freebsd.h to get it to build.  Whether it runs is
another question.  But with the amount of detail you provided, no one can
tell.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut      peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net       http://yi.org/peter-e/

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