Re: Open portability issues

From: Andreas Zeugswetter <andreas(dot)zeugswetter(at)telecom(dot)at>
To: "hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Open portability issues
Date: 1998-09-10 07:47:58
Message-ID: 01BDDCA0.F9B8FC50@zeugswettera.user.lan.at
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>Should we be poking around in /usr/local by default? Comments?

I would, since it is pretty much a standard place to put gnu, bsd and other extensions
like perl, bison, readline ... on non BSD or Linux systems.

>>
>> the stream functions on AIX need a size_t for addrlen's in fe-connect.c and pqcomm.c.
>
>This has come up before. AIX wants size_t for certain structures like
>getsockname(). I believe the third parameter on AIX is size_t, while it
>used to be int on my machine, but is not socklen_t. Is this correct?
>The 'int' code works fine for me, but I can see why AIX is having a
>problem, and perhaps it is time for configure to check on the various
>types.
>
> getsockname(int s, struct sockaddr *name, socklen_t *namelen);

Ok, so this gets tricky. In 4.2.1 it is size_t and in 4.3.1 it is as above with socklen_t :-(

>> AIX 4.2.1 and 4.3.1 need one other simpler Makefile, another template
>> and must not include dynloader.c
>
>Done. Files added.

Thanks very much :-)

Andreas

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