Re: [GENERAL] UnixWare chokes

> Hi all,
>
> Trying to build pg on unixware...hacked configure as follows
> to create a Makefile:
>
> change TEMPLATE=template/`uname -s | tr A-Z a-z`
> to TEMPLATE=template/univel
>
> Downloaded flex-2.3pl7.tar.Z from Freebird site, installed...
> Downloaded bison-1.14.pkg.tar.Z and installed.
>
> And now - after a multitude of warnings (many more than with FreeBSD
> or Linux) gmake barfs with:
> Undefined symbol alloca in file bootstrap/SUBSYS.o

The alloca calls are coming from the code generated by bison. Strange
it would do that on Unixware. You would think bison would know if
alloca was available, and only use it if it was. If you use 'nm' you
will see the unresolved call in bootparse.c, no?

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