pgsql on Linux alpha

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POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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Your name : walter harms
Your email address : wharms(at)bfs(dot)de

System Configuration
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Architecture (example: Intel Pentium) : alpha

Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) : linux 2.2.12

PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.5.3): PostgreSQL-6.5.3
Compiler used (example: gcc 2.8.0) : gcc 2.95.2

Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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./configure fails to detect system automaticly. It selects
template linux what does not exisit.

It should select linux_alpha.

Please describe a way to repeat the problem. Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu
host_os: linux-gnu
checking echo setting...
checking setting template to... linux

linux does not exist

linux_alpha compiles fine.
executing initdb fails in spin.c (SPINLOCK problem).

datetime_abstime End InsertValue
Inserting value: '-'
Typ == NULL, typeindex = 1 idx = 15
- End InsertValue
Insert Begin
InsertOneTuple oid 1180, 16 attrs

FATAL: s_lock(2031ea90) at spin.c:114, stuck spinlock. Aborting.

FATAL: s_lock(2031ea90) at spin.c:114, stuck spinlock. Aborting.
initdb: could not create template database
initdb: cleaning up by wiping out /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1

If you know how this problem might be fixed, list the solution below:
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I have a patch from the internet for 6.5.1. It has a lot of 64bit fixes exspecialy with the datafunktions. Maybe someone can use these fixes. But obviously they werent incorporarated in the 6.5.3 version. What is your position ?

walter