Re: installing 7.2b3 on IRIX 6.5.13

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> One of these days I'm going to write this down somewhere: GCC + Irix +
> PostgreSQL does not work -- until proven otherwise and/or GCC is fixed.

Oh. Yup, that should be documented or enforced by configure.

> I was going to suggest myself someday that we force CC=cc, but it should
> be done in configure.in (near line 274) and not in the template file.

Makes sense to me to do it in configure.in. Shall we go ahead and put
that in?

> We've had successful reports for Irix in the past, so I don't think the -n
> and -r flags are strictly necessary -- at least I'd like to see more
> information regarding them. What makes -n32 and -r12000 better than, say,
> -n64 and -r6000?

Luis' followup indicated that -r wasn't really needed. Not sure about -n.

regards, tom lane