Re: [HACKERS] DEC Alpha and HAVE_INT_TIMEZONE

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> I've finally figured out why the Alpha fails when
> HAVE_INT_TIMEZONE is defined. As far as I'm concerned, somebody
> at DEC should be shot. The problem has nothing to do with
> postgresql code. The symbol 'timezone' is defined in two
> different libraries, as two very different things! libc.a
> defines it as a global variable of type long, as documented in
> the timezone(3) manpage. However, libbsd.a defines a function
> named timezone. Since we link explicitly to -lbsd, guess which
> definition gets linked into the program? We're using the address
> of that function as our timezone offset. Well, the low four
> bytes of the address, anyway.

I assume they are supporting both uses for the symbol. I recommend
hard-coding the stuff into the port, and hopefully it will work. Please
send it patches soon. If it is alpha-specific, we can fold it into the
mega-patch, because alpha was broken in 6.3 anyway.

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> As far as I can tell, we don't require any of the routines used
> in libbsd.a. I'm about to do some more testing to confirm this,
> so hopefully a patch will be on its way soon. Up to this point,
> all I've recompiled under this new model is postgres, which links
> fine, and runs without error. The only failure on the date tests
> that I noticed seemed to be using PST when it should have been
> PDT. I suspect that's an artifact of where I am (Michigan)
> which, according to the /etc/zoneinfo/localtime source, didn't
> observe DST between 1968 and 1973.

Yea, I see this sometimes too on BSDI.

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