Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL supported platform report and a

Many thanks Larry,

Sorry I had omited the -Xb (no secret dance) in my report...

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Larry Rosenman wrote:

> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:17:28 -0600
> From: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
> To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Olivier PRENANT <ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr>
> Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Billy G. Allie <Bill(dot)Allie(at)mug(dot)org>,
> pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [PORTS] [HACKERS] PostgreSQL supported platform report and a
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> --On Thursday, November 07, 2002 22:21:56 +0100 Peter Eisentraut
> <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>
> > Olivier PRENANT writes:
> >
> >> I don't mind having CFLAGS=-Xb though, done it for php already...
> >> By everyone says this should go off so..
> >
> > The idea of the platform testing is not to determine whether you can
> > compile PostgreSQL after performing a secret dance. If it doesn't compile
> > with the default options, please don't report it as supported.
> It DOES compile out of the box now on 8.0.0(7.1.2) and 7.1.3. Apparently a
> compiler
> fix between the 7.1.1b FS and 7.1.2.
>
> The -Xb switch is NOT a secret dance. It's needed for LOTS of open source
> stuff.
>
> See the discussion from the Caldera folks last week.
>
> Tom's fix fixed the defaults for 7.1.2+
>
>
> >
> > --
> > Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
>
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>

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