RE: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] v6.3 release ToDo list and supported p

I have a "custom" slackware with at least the following updates:

gcc-2.8.0
glibc-2.0.6

As per the glibc upgrade notes out there on the web, I've cleared
(actually moved) the /usr/include header files before installing
glibc, and have reinstalled some "standard" extra libraries (such as
ncurses) after that.

I get the 3 hours 59 minutes 60.00 seconds.

I also get a bunch of other problems in other tests. Some are just
differences in the error message, but others are actual differences
in the float/double numbers produced. Others don't show an error and
give a number where one "should" have been produced. This is all
vauge now, but I will recompile the latest snapshot and give a
complete update maybe tonight, if not tomorrow.

Could some of the other problems be due to gcc-2.8.0, which I'm not
sure is being used by anyone else for postgress (yet)? Should we
include the compiler used in the porting updates (I think so). For
instance, I like to use gcc on the Sparc/Solaris2.5.1 and HP-UX/10.20
boxes I have because it makes porting things easier between those
boxes and my Linux systems. Isn't it possible that postgres compiles
fine using the vendor-supplied compilers, but would fail on gcc, or
visa versa?

- Fred

> I just tried this on Debian with glibc 2.0.6 and it works fine. That
> is my 6.3 postgresql release outputs 4 hours.
>
> Michael
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> > ----------
> > From: Thomas G. Lockhart[SMTP:lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu]
> > Sent: Freitag, 13. Februar 1998 17:57
> > To: Fred(dot)Reimer(at)ctg(dot)hboc(dot)com; Bruce Momjian
> > Cc: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> > Subject: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] v6.3 release ToDo list and
> > supported ports
> >
> > > Is the ix86/linux "confirmed" port using libc 5 or glibc 2.x (aka
> > > libc6)? As most major distributions are going to release all new
> > > versions with glibc I think it's prudent to test on both "platforms"
> > > independently.
> >
> > Yes, that is a good point. There is a known bug in the glibc2 math
> > library which breaks the date/time routines:
> >
> > select '4 hours'::timespan;
> > ---------
> > @ 4 hours
> > (1 row)
> >
> > comes out instead as
> > tgl=> select '4 hours'::timespan;
> > ----------------------------
> > @ 3 hours 59 mins 60.00 secs
> > (1 row)
> >
> > Oliver was working on patches. Lost his e-mail message; is Oliver
> > still
> > here? I've got a RH5.0 linux system at work now, and the shipped
> > Postgres
> > installation has this problem. I'd like to see it fixed...
> >
> > Bruce, can you add this to the v6.3 ToDo (assuming you agree to take
> > it
> > on :)
> >
> > - Tom
> >
> >
> >
>