Re: Postgres 7 on IRIX

Pete Forman writes:

> I have submitted two patches to get around build problems. I'd expect
> both to be needed for AIX and Solaris at least, as well as IRIX.

Both Solaris and AIX have been known to work.

> A minor problem that I have not addressed is that for the main build I
> was able to "make". That found my /usr/local/bin/gmake and from there
> on used "gmake". The same feature has not been done in
> src/test/regress. Running "gmake" directly is fine though.

Actually, you can now run the regression tests simply by typing "make
check" in the top-level directory; there's not need to move into the
source tree anymore. We're probably not going to add the GNU make
detection everywhere, since it's more of a gimmick than a real feature.

> The runcheck regression tests are all good except for geometry. That
> has nine differences in the least significant digit compared with
> geometry-positive-zeros.out. Do you think that's good enough to
> submit a geometry-irix.out file?

Sure. Perhaps you could check first if the result you got matches any of
the other geometry output files.

> Snapshot with my two patches builds and passes the runcheck regression
> tests.

Where are the patches?

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