Re: [PORTS] Core dump with initdb on Irix 6.2

On Tue, 4 May 1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> > After switching to gcc 2.8.1 (thanks to Remi), I've managed to get
> > initdb and postmaster running now - woo who!!
> > However, my excitement was short live. After examining make log, I
> > find that psql doesn't compile. Hence createdb will stall.
> > Here's the message
> > ld32: FATAL 12: Expecting n32 objects:
> > /usr/local/lib/libreadline.a(readline.o) is o32.

> It looks like libreadline (which you installed earlier) was built
> using o32, whatever that is, and that is different from n32. Try
> rebuilding libreadline or build all of postgres with using o32.

Ah, I see now.

> Another option is to explicitly disable using readline;

umh, before I going down that path, what effect would it have on postgres?

Thanks heap,

rOnn c.