I've been going talking with the SGI technical support about some of the errors I got when compiling Postgres 7.1.1 on SGI IRIX 6.5.12 with the MIPSPro 7.3 C compiler. I've already mentioned that somehow the compiler can't see the correct definition for strdup (I believe she thought that it was due to the POSIX declaration). There's also a problem with it not seeing the structure timeval defined. timeval is in /usr/include/sys/time.h and is declared in the following way: #if _XOPEN4UX || defined(_BSD_TYPES) || defined(_BSD_COMPAT) /* * Structure returned by gettimeofday(2) system call, * and used in other calls. * Note this is also defined in sys/resource.h */ #ifndef _TIMEVAL_T #define _TIMEVAL_T struct timeval { #if _MIPS_SZLONG == 64 __int32_t :32; #endif time_t tv_sec; /* seconds */ long tv_usec; /* and microseconds */ }; So SGI is assuming that you're declaring BSD types or compatibility. However, the tech support person said that with the compiler's POSIX declaration, this is conflicting. Basically, she says that POSIX implies generalized portability across many platforms, but BSD implies a specific type of platform. So that's where she thinks SGI is having the trouble-- two conflicting type declarations. Is this correct? -Tony ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly