Re: [HACKERS] Re: [BUGS] [Keystone Slip # 14] Building pristine source on RedHat Alpha6.0

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: nospam(dot)bannisp(at)cwdom(dot)dm, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [BUGS] [Keystone Slip # 14] Building pristine source on RedHat Alpha6.0
Date: 1999-07-29 15:28:23
Message-ID: 746.933262103@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Yikes. Is this the expected behavour? Does anyone else see this?

>> checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O -mieee # optimization -O2
>> removed because of egcs problem ) works... no
>> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
>> cannot create executables.

Yup, I see exactly the same thing when I add a # comment to CFLAGS in
my template file. I think it is only safe to put # comments on their
own lines in template files. A quick grep shows that linux_alpha is
the only template that violates that rule.

>>>> Hmm. That is strange. I thought the Makefile would honor the # and not
>>>> pass it through.

gmake might, but autoconf is a different story...

regards, tom lane

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