Re: Second call for platform testing

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Cyril VELTER <cyril(dot)velter(at)libertysurf(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Second call for platform testing
Date: 2001-11-29 19:12:54
Message-ID: 200111291912.fATJCsN24164@candle.pha.pa.us
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> "Cyril VELTER" <cyril(dot)velter(at)libertysurf(dot)fr> writes:
> > What modification should be made to configure.in to make it include
> > SupportDefs.h when testing for int8 uint8 int64 and uint64 size ?
>
> This looks like a bit of a pain. We're currently using AC_CHECK_SIZEOF
> to make those probes, apparently because it's the closest standard macro
> to what we want. But it's not close enough. It doesn't include
> anything except <stdio.h>. I don't think we can fix this except by
> making our own macro. Peter, any opinion about how to do it?

I was wondering where that bizarre fopen()/fprintf() in the test code
came from. It looked strange. Now I know why; it came from autoconf.

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