[Fwd: Re: Call for platforms]

Hi all,

Vince asked me to forward this here.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Call for platforms
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:45:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>
To: Justin Clift <aa2(at)bigpond(dot)net(dot)au>

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Justin Clift wrote:

> Hi Vince,
>
> I'm wondering if it's worth putting something on the regresssion test
> results page asking people to try ALL the options if possible?
>
> Like, I tested Solaris 8 SPARC with './configure --p=/opt/postgresql71
> --enable-syslog', and that worked perfectly. BUT, when I started adding
> in stuff like --with-openssl --with-python, there were nasty
> interactions and things didn't work.
>
> It would be nice to know that on a Supported Platform that ALL of the
> options worked (apart from the Perl option which we apparently can't
> make 100% work).
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>

You might want to pass that along to hackers. It'd be interesting to
hear
their thoughts.

Vince.
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