Re: Call for platforms (HP-UX)

From: Giles Lean <giles(at)nemeton(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Call for platforms (HP-UX)
Date: 2001-03-24 04:41:55
Message-ID: 4416.985408915@nemeton.com.au
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> Hm, I thought I had updated that before beta6. What it has now is

<grin>

> The parallel regression test script (gmake check) is known to lock up
> when run under HP's default Bourne shell, at least in HPUX 10.20. This
> appears to be a shell bug, not the fault of the script. If you see that
> the tests have stopped making progress and only a shell process is
> consuming CPU, kill the shell and start over with
> gmake SHELL=/bin/ksh check
> to use ksh instead.

Interestingly, ksh didn't work for me either, but didn't try it on all
the platforms I built on. I'll make a note to check ksh when I'm
investigating the problem next week though, and let you know what I
find.

Regards,

Giles

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