Re: Request for supported platforms

On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 09:53, Tom Lane wrote:
> Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> writes:
> > $ uname -a
> > FreeBSD avienda.nxad.com 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Mon Oct 28 18:20:14 PST 2002 root(at)avienda(dot)nxad(dot)com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DELLAPTOP i386
>
> > Looks like the only problem on beta3 is that the geometry bits are
> > failing, but I'm not 100% if they haven't already been solved. -sc
>
> Hmm. Evidently you now have support for minus-zero. It looks like we
> have an updated comparison file for that case for FreeBSD, but it's only
> being applied for FreeBSD 4.7:
>
> geometry/i.86-.*-freebsd4.7=geometry-bsd-precision
> geometry/i.86-.*-freebsd=geometry-positive-zeros-bsd
> geometry/alpha.*-freebsd=geometry-positive-zeros
>
> Or at least it's *trying* to apply it for 4.7 --- as near as I can tell
> without testing, the above scrap of resultmap code is wrong because both
> of the i.86 lines will match on FreeBSD 4.7, and I think the pg_regress
> coding will take the last match. Larry, did you actually test the
> CVS-tip resultmap to make sure it picks the right comparison file on
> your box?
Yes, just did and it *FAILS*.

you need the order you have below.

Sorry...

>
> We could possibly do
>
> geometry/i.86-.*-freebsd=geometry-positive-zeros-bsd
> geometry/i.86-.*-freebsd4.7=geometry-bsd-precision
> geometry/i.86-.*-freebsd5=geometry-bsd-precision
> geometry/alpha.*-freebsd=geometry-positive-zeros
>
> which is mighty ugly, but I'm hopeful that by the next PG release we'll
> have gotten rid of most of the platform-to-platform geometry variants
> anyway.
>
> regards, tom lane
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