Re: [PORTS] RedHat6.0 & Alpha

> I imagine that this flag is specific to the compiler. It would
> probably be best to leave it to patches until the alpha issues are
> solved for every OS environment; sorry I don't have a platform myself
> to test on.
>
> btw, RedHat is interested in doing a maintenance release of Postgres
> rpms, and would dearly love to have the Alpha port problems solved (or
> vica versa; they hate that their shipping rpms are broken or not
> available on one of their three supported architectures).
>
> Uncle G, could you tell us the actual port string configure generates
> for your platform? At the moment, PORTNAME on my i686 box says
> "linux", and I don't see architecture info. But perhaps we can have
> configure deduce an ARCH parameter too? It already knows it when first
> identifying the system...

OK, I have made it:

ifeq ($(CPU),alpha)
ifeq ($(CC), gcc)
CFLAGS+= -mieee
endif
ifeq ($(CC), egcs)
CFLAGS+= -mieee
endif
endif

I can always rip it out later.

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