Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src/template bsdi freebsd

At 10:45 AM -0400 10/9/03, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>Neil Conway wrote:
>> On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 09:35, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> > I only put back what was already there --- not sure why others don't use
>> > it. You want it enabled on Linux?
>>
>> Well, why do we have it enabled at all? If it's to speed compilation, we
>> may as well enable it on other platforms where -pipe works, of which
>> Linux is one.
>
>My gcc 2.95.3 manual says:
>
> -pipe Use pipes rather than temporary files for communi-
> cation between the various stages of compilation.
> This fails to work on some systems where the assem-
> bler cannot read from a pipe; but the GNU assembler
> has no trouble.
>
>so it looks like we can't use it on all platforms without testing. I
>will enable it for linux. Do people want to test other platforms?

It should work on any platform that uses the GNU tools, so that means
*BSD is in the same boat as Linux.

Does it really speed compilation though? I saw somewhere that it
didn't make much difference and might even hurt sometimes.
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