Re: [HACKERS] Irix 6.2, Postgres 7.3.1, some brokenness

2003-02-10 Thread Kevin Brown
Peter Eisentraut wrote: alex avriette writes: Is it worth warning the user that you cannot use gcc as ld on Irix? You cannot use gcc as ld on any system. Erm, perhaps not, but you can use it as the link step (both to generate executables and to generate shared objects) on many systems.

Re: [HACKERS] Irix 6.2, Postgres 7.3.1, some brokenness

2003-02-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
alex avriette writes: Is it worth warning the user that you cannot use gcc as ld on Irix? You cannot use gcc as ld on any system. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives?

Re: [HACKERS] Irix 6.2, Postgres 7.3.1, some brokenness

2003-02-06 Thread alex avriette
Disregard previous. Using /bin/ld (with LDREL = -r) works fine as a linker. Call it force of habit. Is it worth warning the user that you cannot use gcc as ld on Irix? I used it because I figured I would need gnu ld (which I of course didn't have). Anyhow, 7.3.1 is successfully built. Alex

[HACKERS] Irix 6.2, Postgres 7.3.1, some brokenness

2003-02-02 Thread alex avriette
I've got a 6-way SGI Challenge L with R4400/200 cpu's in it, and a gig of interleaved ram. I am running postgres 7.3.1, which I compiled 64-bit with MIPSPro. The database is living on an ultrawide scsi raid. I am also running postgres on a 2-cpu (85mhz) Sparc 20 with 384mb of ram, and the

Re: [HACKERS] Irix 6.2, Postgres 7.3.1, some brokenness

2003-02-02 Thread alex avriette
I have tried, without any luck, to get postgres compiled with gcc 3.2 (from freeware.sgi.com). It keeps adding '-r' when its linking, even when LDFLAGS is unset, LD is 'gcc' and CC is 'gcc'. I could do the linking manually, but this is not really a viable option for a release. Looking at

Re: [HACKERS] Irix 6.2, Postgres 7.3.1, some brokenness

2003-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
alex avriette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a 6-way SGI Challenge L with R4400/200 cpu's in it, and a gig of interleaved ram. I am running postgres 7.3.1, which I compiled 64-bit with MIPSPro. I'm finding that the Sparc 20 is about twice as fast as the Challenge. I'm betting that

Re: [HACKERS] Irix 6.2, Postgres 7.3.1, some brokenness

2003-02-02 Thread alex avriette
When compiled with gcc, it does trap divide by zero. Alex ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster